Somatosensory Research Methods (Neuromethods)

PART I Discriminative touch, proprioception & kinaesthesis 1 Detection, discrimination & localisation: The psychophysics of touch Nicholas P Holmes and Luigi Tam 2 Methods of somatosensory attenuation Konstantina Kilteni 3 Muscle Tendon Vibration: A Method for Estimating Kinaesthetic perception Anne Kavounoudias, Caroline Blanchard, Caroline Landelle and Marie Chancel 4 Creating tactile motion Tatjana Seizova-Cajic, Xaver Fuchs and Jack Brooks 5 Measuring Tactile Distance Perception Matthew R Longo PART II Affective touch, pain, wetness, itch & interoception 6 Affective Touch: Psychophysics, Physiology and Vicarious Touch Perception Connor James Haggarty, Adarsh Makdani and Francis McGlone 7 Qualia, brain waves and spinal reflexes: The study of pain perception by means of subjective reports, electroencephalography and electromyography Elia Valentini, Sarah Vaughan and Amanda Clauwaert 8 The many challenges of human experimental itch research Henning Holle and Donna M. Lloyd 9 Experimental framework and methods for the assessment of skin wetness sensing in humans Charlotte Merrick, Rochelle Ackerley and Davide Filingeri 10 Skin-mediated interoception: The perception of affective touch and cutaneous pain Laura Crucianelli and India Morrison PART III Individual differences, development & illusions 11 Atypical development of tactile processing Nicolaas A. J. Puts and Carissa J. Cascio 12 Measuring Touch Sensitivity in an Ageing Population Aldrin Loomes, Roberta Roberts and Harriet A Allen 13 Somatosensory illusions Tatjana Seizova-Cajic, Regine Zopf, Martin Riemer and Xaver Fuchs 14 Sensory Substitution: Visual information via haptics Jack Brooks, rni Kristjnsson and Runar Unnthorsson PART IV The somatosensory nervous system 15 Microneurography: Recordings from single neurons in human peripheral nerves Rochelle Ackerley and Roger Holmes Watkins 16 Electrophysiological techniques for studying tactile perception in rats Sevgi ztrk, Ismail Devecioglu, Bige Vardar, Fikret Taygun Duvan and Burak Gl 17 Imaging somatosensory cortex in rodents Mariangela Panniello, Severin A.C. Limal and Michael M. Kohl 18 Imaging somatosensory cortex: human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) Alexander M. Puckett and Rosa M. Sanchez Panchuelo 19 Electroencephalography of Touch Jonas Vibell, Helge Gillmeister, Alejandra Sel, Connor Haggarty, Jose Van Velzen and Bettina Forster 20 Neurostimulation in tactile perception Luigi Tam and Nicholas P Holmes