tactile receptor

It can be localised easily if Aδ fibres are stimulated together with tactile receptors.

Tactile receptors are abundant on the fingertips, face, and tongue while sparse on the back, legs and arms.

The gnathochilarium is richly infused with chemosensory and tactile receptors along its edge.

To understand tactile sensory substitution it is essential to understand some basic physiology of the tactile receptors of the skin.

He had to do an emer- gency short-out of his tactile receptors in that region to pre- vent a reaction as her firm naked buttocks made contact.

Many studies have shown a decline in passive tactile spatial acuity with age; the reasons for this decline are unknown, but may include loss of tactile receptors during normal aging.

Recently, several new systems have been developed that interface the tactile image to tactile receptors on different areas of the body such as the on the chest, brow, fingertip, abdomen, and forehead.

There are five basic types of tactile receptors: Pacinian corpuscle, Meissner's corpuscle, Ruffini endings, Merkel nerve endings, and free nerve endings.

The axons of these single tactile receptors will converge into a single nerve trunk, and the signal is then sent to the spinal cord where the message makes its way to the somatosensory systems in the brain.

Sandpipers are more geared towards tactile foraging methods than the plovers, which favour more visual foraging methods, and this is reflected in the high density of tactile receptors in the tips of their bills.

One of the earliest and most well known form of sensory substitution devices was Paul Bach-y-Rita's TVSS that converted the image from a video camera into a tactile image and coupled it to the tactile receptors on the back of his blind subject.