 Touch
"Touch" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Sensation of making physical contact with objects, animate or inanimate. Tactile stimuli are detected by MECHANORECEPTORS in the skin and mucous membranes.
| Descriptor ID |
D014110
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F02.830.816.850 G11.561.600.810.850
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| Concept/Terms |
Touch- Touch
- Taction
- Tactions
- Sense of Touch
- Touch Sense
- Touch Senses
- Tactile Sense
- Sense, Tactile
- Senses, Tactile
- Tactile Senses
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Touch" by people in this website by year, and whether "Touch" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1988 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1992 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2006 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2007 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2008 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2009 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2011 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2014 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2015 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2016 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2017 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2019 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Touch" by people in Profiles.
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George JA, Brinton MR, Colgan PC, Colvin GK, Bensmaia SJ, Clark GA. Intensity Discriminability of Electrocutaneous and Intraneural Stimulation Pulse Frequency in Intact Individuals and Amputees. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2020 07; 2020:3893-3896.
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Callier T, Brantly NW, Caravelli A, Bensmaia SJ. The frequency of cortical microstimulation shapes artificial touch. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 01 14; 117(2):1191-1200.
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Callier T, Suresh AK, Bensmaia SJ. Neural Coding of Contact Events in Somatosensory Cortex. Cereb Cortex. 2019 12 17; 29(11):4613-4627.
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Delhaye BP, O'Donnell MK, Lieber JD, McLellan KR, Bensmaia SJ. Feeling fooled: Texture contaminates the neural code for tactile speed. PLoS Biol. 2019 08; 17(8):e3000431.
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Munro E. Anillin Puts RhoA in Touch with PIP2. Dev Cell. 2019 06 17; 49(6):819-820.
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Delhaye BP, Xia X, Bensmaia SJ. Rapid geometric feature signaling in the simulated spiking activity of a complete population of tactile nerve fibers. J Neurophysiol. 2019 06 01; 121(6):2071-2082.
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Lieber JD, Bensmaia SJ. High-dimensional representation of texture in somatosensory cortex of primates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 02 19; 116(8):3268-3277.
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Aiello BR, Hardy AR, Westneat MW, Hale ME. Fins as Mechanosensors for Movement and Touch-Related Behaviors. . 2018 11 01; 58(5):844-859.
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Okorokova EV, He Q, Bensmaia SJ. Biomimetic encoding model for restoring touch in bionic hands through a nerve interface. J Neural Eng. 2018 12; 15(6):066033.
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Graczyk EL, Delhaye BP, Schiefer MA, Bensmaia SJ, Tyler DJ. Sensory adaptation to electrical stimulation of the somatosensory nerves. J Neural Eng. 2018 08; 15(4):046002.
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