First spikes in ensembles of human tactile afferents code complex spatial fingertip events

By Roland S. Johansson, Ingvars Birznieks. Nature Neuroscience, 2004

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience

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The tempotron: a neuron that learns spike timing–based decisions (2006, background): “In both input classes afferents are divided into the same groups: for example, (1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6), (7, 8, 9), (alternating background shading).”
Introduction to spiking neural networks: Information processing, learning and applications. (2011, background): “Time to first spike has been shown to carry enough information e.g. to encode touch signals at the finger tips in the tactile system (Johansson and Birznieks 2004).”
Biomimetic Tactile Sensor Array (2008, background): “describing grip forces and their adjustment in human subjects coping with both predictable and unpredictable pulling loads [27, 42-44 ].”
Eye–hand coordination in a sequential target contact task (2009, background): “In object manipulation tasks, mismatches between predicted and actual tactile feedback result in corrections to Wngertip forces within about 100 ms (Jenmalm and Johansson 1997; Jenmalm et al. 2000; Johansson and Birznieks 2004; Johansson and Westling 1984, 1988).”
Coding and use of tactile signals from the fingertips in object manipulation tasks (2009, background): “However, the speed with which the brain detects and classifies prediction errors in the tactile modality and launches corrective actions implies that some information can be transmitted even when most of the afferents recruited have only had time to fire one impuls”
Compensating time delays with neural predictions: are predictions sensory or motor? (2009, background): “However, over the past many decades, alternative schemes have been developed in which time is the medium in which coding of information takes place (Bialek & Rieke 1992; Hopﬁeld 1995; Singer & Gray 1995; Johansson & Birznieks 2004; VanRullen et al .”
Tactile Sensing—From Humans to Humanoids (2010, background): “mechanoreceptorsthe in the terminal phalanx [43].”
Neuronal variability: noise or part of the signal? (2005, background): “Recent studies have indicated that the precise timing of spikes is crucial in the function of the somatosensor”
Sensory transmission in cerebellar granule cells relies on similarly coded mossy fiber inputs (2009, methodology): “To avoid response variability associated with skin receptor activation (14), we used closely spaced (5–10 mm apart) percutaneous skin needles to deliver electrical shocks within the sensitivity center of the receptive field.”
Predictive Feedback Can Account for Biphasic Responses in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus (2009, background): “Direct neurophysiological evidence for this signaling strategy has been obtained in hippocampus [91,92] and in human somatosensory system [93].”