Alastair J. Loutit

This study identifies lamellar Schwann cells in Pacinian corpuscles as key elements that potentiate mechanosensitivity through structural and functional interactions with afferent axons.

This study identifies structured frequency and location maps in the dorsal column nuclei, showing their relationship and emergence through dendritic sampling of axonal afferents.

This study investigates how vibrotactile stimuli are encoded along the ascending somatosensory pathway in mice, revealing a transformation from temporal to rate coding in the thalamus.

The paper shows that natural finger movement kinematics enhance friction perception at initial contact with smooth surfaces, as demonstrated by improved performance in identifying slippery surfaces.

This study compares how human and monkey tactile afferents encode tangential torques during fingerpad manipulation, finding human SA-I afferents less sensitive than monkey counterparts but potentially compensated by SA-II afferents.

The paper identifies neural signal features that improve decoding of somatosensory stimuli from dorsal column nuclei in rats, showing better generalisation for proprioception-dominated signals.