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In effort to mimic the sensitivity and efficient information transfer of natural tactile afferents, recent work has combined force transducers and computational models of mechanosensitive afferents. Sensor durability, another feature important to sensor design, might similarly capitalize upon biological rules. In particular, gains in sensor durability might leverage insight from the compound end organ...
The neural response to touch stimuli is influenced by skin properties as well as the delivery of stimuli. Here, we compare stimuli controlled by displacement and force, and analyze the impact on firing rates of slowly adapting type I afferents as skin thickness and elasticity change. Uniaxial compression tests were used to measure the mechanical properties of mouse hind limb skin (n=5), resulting...
The reticular formation of the lower brain stem contains neuronal circuits for the generation of sympathetic tone, respiratory rhythm, muscle tone and the control of vigilance. In anesthetized dogs single neurone activities were recorded in the medial two-thirds of the reticular formation to investigate the organizing principles of this multifunctional system. The results from 110 recordings demonstrate...
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