Somatosensory Research Methods

Detection, discrimination & localisation: The psychophysics of touch.- Methods of somatosensory attenuation.- Muscle Tendon Vibration: A Method for Estimating Kinaesthetic perception.- Creating tactile motion.- Measuring Tactile Distance Perception.- Affective Touch: Psychophysics, Physiology and Vicarious Touch Perception.- Qualia, brain waves and spinal reflexes: The study of pain perception by means of subjective reports, electroencephalography and electromyography.- The many challenges of human experimental itch research.- Experimental framework and methods for the assessment of skin wetness sensing in humans.- Skin-mediated interoception: The perception of affective touch and cutaneous pain.- Atypical development of tactile processing.- Measuring Touch Sensitivity in an Ageing Population.- Somatosensory illusions.- Sensory Substitution: Visual information via haptics.- Microneurography: Recordings from single neurons in human peripheral nerves.- Electrophysiological techniques for studying tactile perception in rats.- Imaging somatosensory cortex in rodents.- Imaging somatosensory cortex: human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).- Electroencephalography of Touch.- Neurostimulation in tactile perception.