Sensory Functions of the Skin of Humans

Welcoming Address.- How it Started: A Personal Review.- Psychophysical and Neurophysiological Methods to Study Patients with Sensory Disturbances.- Precision and Ambiguity in Coding Vibrotactile Information.- Cues Supporting Recognition of the Orientation or Direction of Movement of Tactile Stimuli.- The Coding of Direction of Tactile Stimulus Movement: Correlative Psychophysical and Electrophysiological Data.- Somatosensory Potentials in Humans Evoked by Both Mechanical Stimulation of the Skin and Electrical Stimulation of the Nerve.- Tactile Afferent Units with Small and Well Demarcated Receptive Fields in the Glabrous Skin Area of the Human Hand.- Psychophysical Measurements of Enhancement, Suppression, and Surface Gradient Effects in Vibrotaction.- Vibrotactile Frequency Characteristics as Determined by Adaptation and Masking Procedures.- Thermo-Tactile Interactions: Some Influences of Temperature on Touch.- Thermo-Tactile Interactions: Effects of Touch on Thermal Localization.- The Neural Basis of the Sensory Quality of Warmth.- Problems of Correlating Cutaneous Sensation with Neural Events in Man.- Touch and Thermal Sensations: Psychophysical Observations and Unit Activity in Human Skin.- Coincidence and Cause: A Discussion on Correlations Between Activity in Primary Afferents and Perceptive Experience in Cutaneous Sensibility.- Activity in C Nociceptors and Sensation.- Intensive and Temporal Determinants of Thermal Pain.- Average Evoked Potentials and Sensory Experience.- Burning and Second Pain: An Alternative Interpretation.- General Discussion.- Contributors and Invited Participants.- Author Index.