 Touch Perception
"Touch Perception" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The process by which the nature and meaning of tactile stimuli are recognized and interpreted by the brain, such as realizing the characteristics or name of an object being touched.
| Descriptor ID |
D055698
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.463.593.894
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| Concept/Terms |
Touch Perception- Touch Perception
- Perception, Touch
- Perceptions, Touch
- Touch Perceptions
- Tactile Perception
- Perception, Tactile
- Perceptions, Tactile
- Tactile Perceptions
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Touch Perception" by people in this website by year, and whether "Touch Perception" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Touch Perception" by people in Profiles.
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Song W, Francis JT. Gating of tactile information through gamma band during passive arm movement in awake primates. Front Neural Circuits. 2015; 9:64.
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Poole D, Gowen E, Warren PA, Poliakoff E. Investigating visual-tactile interactions over time and space in adults with autism. J Autism Dev Disord. 2015 Oct; 45(10):3316-26.
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Poole D, Couth S, Gowen E, Warren PA, Poliakoff E. Adapting the Crossmodal Congruency Task for Measuring the Limits of Visual-Tactile Interactions Within and Between Groups. Multisens Res. 2015; 28(3-4):227-44.
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Song W, Francis JT. Tactile information processing in primate hand somatosensory cortex (S1) during passive arm movement. J Neurophysiol. 2013 Nov; 110(9):2061-70.
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Coskun MA, Varghese L, Reddoch S, Castillo EM, Pearson DA, Loveland KA, Papanicolaou AC, Sheth BR. How somatic cortical maps differ in autistic and typical brains. Neuroreport. 2009 Jan 28; 20(2):175-9.
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