Touch: Fluctuating Waves of Perception

Jinho Kim; Samuel Andrew Hires

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.087

Touch: Fluctuating Waves of Perception

Curr Biol. 2020 Aug 17;30(16):R934-R936. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.087.

Authors

Jinho Kim¹, Samuel Andrew Hires²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Section of Neurobiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. Electronic address: jinho@usc.edu.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Section of Neurobiology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. Electronic address: shires@usc.edu.

PMID: 32810452
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.087

Abstract

Does sensory input flow into the brain as a stream, or does it come in waves? New research shows that tactile information in the cortex rises and falls in phase with the forward and back motion of whiskers during surface exploration.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Brain
Touch Perception*
Touch*
Vibrissae