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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 7, 2192-2202, Copyright © 1987 by Society for Neuroscience

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Sinusoidal movement of a grating across the monkey's fingerpad: effect of contact angle and force of the grating on afferent fiber responses

AW Goodwin and JW Morley

Responses were recorded from cutaneous afferents innervating mechanoreceptors in the monkey's fingerpad. When gratings of alternating grooves and ridges were moved sinusoidally back and forth across the receptive field, the responses of the afferent were often not equal for the 2 directions of movement. To investigate this phenomenon, the position of the center of the afferent's receptive field, relative to the contact area between the grating and the finger, was varied systematically. For some afferents, regardless of these relative positions, the response was always greater for a particular direction of movement. For other afferents, regardless of these relative positions, the responses for the 2 directions of movement were always equal. For a minority of afferents, the response was greater for movement in one particular direction for some relative positions and greater for movement in the opposite direction for other relative positions. Slowly adapting afferents (SAs), rapidly adapting afferents (RAs), and Pacinian afferents (PCs) exhibited all 3 types of response patterns. We could not relate these patterns to the afferent type or to the positions, in the fingerpad, of the receptive field center. The contact force between the grating and the finger was varied by varying the contact displacement (indentation). Two grating spatial periods were used. For SAs and PCs the response increased with increasing indentation for both gratings. For RAs the response to the finer grating increased with increasing indentation, but the response to the coarser grating did not.

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