Chapter 3 provided a new view of human tactile sensing, revealing how the transmission of
mechanical wave signals in the hand transforms localized touch contact into a variety of …

Tactile information arising from mechanical interaction with the environment is first conveyed
by the skin. Prior studies have shown that mechanical waves propagating in tissues carry …

This paper presents a neuromorphic tactile encoding methodology that utilizes a temporally
precise event-based representation of sensory signals. We introduce a novel concept where …

A major challenge in haptic engineering has been to design practical methods to efficiently
stimulate distributed areas of skin. Here, we show how to use a single actuator to generate …

We present a neurorobotic framework to investigate tactile information processing at the
early stages of the somatosensory pathway. We focus on spatiotemporal coding of first and …

With the increase in interest in the deployment of robots in unstructured environments to
work alongside humans, the development of human-like sense of touch for robots becomes …

A contact-mechanics analysis was used to explain a tactile illusion engendered by straining
the fingertip skin tangentially in a progressive wave pattern resulting in the perception of a …

A key challenge in haptic engineering is to design methods for stimulating the skin-a
continuous medium with infinitely many degrees of freedom-via practical devices with few …

The temporal pattern of action potentials can convey rich information in a variety of sensory
systems. We describe a new non-invasive technique that enables precise, reliable …

Sensory information is conveyed by populations of neurons, and coding strategies cannot
always be deduced when considering individual neurons. Moreover, information coding …