In this thesis, rats were trained to detect the presence or absence of bursts of mechanical sinusoidal vibrations (duration: 0.5 s, zero-to-peak amplitude: 200 m, frequency: 40 Hz) delivered to the volar surface of their ...

The sense of touch has two functional dimensions: discriminative and affective. Discriminative properties of tactile stimuli are relayed via myelinated and fast conducting A fibers while affective properties are transmitted ...