Giulia Corniani

This study investigates how individual fingerprint ridges deform during tactile interactions and finds that ridge flanks and their relative movement, rather than overall bending, are the primary sources of deformation and potential neural responses.

This study investigates population coding strategies in human tactile afferents, finding that optimal density and composition depend on tactile features, and temporal information is more critical than spatial information.

The paper estimates tactile afferent fiber densities across the whole body using multiple methods and finds that the total number of tactile fibers is approximately 230,000 with regional variations.