Mechanoreceptive Aβ primary afferents discriminate naturalistic social touch inputs at a functionally relevant time scale
Shan Xu, Steven Conrad Hauser, Saad S. Nagi, James A. Jablonski, Merat Rezaei, Ewa Jarocka, Andrew G. Marshall, Håkan Olausson, Sarah McIntyre, Gregory J. Gerling
The paper shows that SA-II and HFA afferents can distinguish social touch inputs with high accuracy using 3-4 seconds of firing data, outperforming other afferent types.
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing · Jul 29, 2024Peer-reviewedNeuroscience