Tactile Feature Processing and Selective Attention | Two Experimental Investigations in the Human Somatosensory System

Evelin Wacker

ISBN 10: 3838116178 / ISBN 13: 9783838116174

Published by Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften AG Co. KG, 2015

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Tactile Feature Processing and Selective Attention | Two Experimental Investigations in the Human Somatosensory System | Evelin Wacker | Taschenbuch | Paperback | 124 S. | Englisch | 2015 | Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften AG Co. KG | EAN 9783838116174 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: BoD - Books on Demand, In de Tarpen 42, 22848 Norderstedt, info[at]bod[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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• Title: Tactile Feature Processing and Selective Attention | Two Experimental Investigations in the Human Somatosensory System
• Publisher: Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften AG Co. KG
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3838116178
• ISBN 13: 9783838116174
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 9D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 9 millimeters depth
• Weight: 203 grams
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Synopsis

The somatosensory system is highly diverse in its functionality. Among others, it is responsible for tactile perception and involved in motor control. Considerable effort has been directed towards elucidating how somatosensory processing is organized to subserve these functions. Based on this, Dijkerman and de Haan recently proposed a model to describe the cortical processing of somatosensory information (Dijkerman and de Haan 2007). The aim of the present thesis was to extend this model of somatosensory processing for perception and action, focussing on feature processing and attentional modulation during tactile perception. To this end, two functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments were performed, in which Braille-like tactile stimulation was presented to human volunteers. Based on the experimental results, functions for feature processing and attentional modulation were added to the model by Dijkerman and de Haan. The extended model contributes to the understanding of how the somatosensory system processes tactile input and allows formulating testable hypotheses to motivate future research questions.

About the Author

The author was born in Ilmenau and studied bioinformatics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. She completed the International Doctoral Program in Computational Neuroscience at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin and received her PhD from the Technical University Berlin in 2011.