Quantitative Modeling of Cutaneous Type I Receptors

本项目关注的是对功能的理解， 一种特殊的皮肤机械感受器的结构。 一个如何 皮肤上的机械压力是相对于空间感测的， 将产生时间刺激。 这将通过应用 信息论方法研究刺激特征提取。 这项工作的结果应该与感官残疾人有关， 例如，在一个实施例中，盲人或听力受损的人，他们可以获得必要的感官 信息使用皮肤受体作为替代的感觉通道。 其他研究小组在触觉显示领域也很活跃， 从这个项目中获得的信息对实现 更好的感官替代。

This project is concerned with the understanding of the function and structure of a particular cutaneous mechanoreceptor. A model of how mechanical pressure on the skin is sensed with respect to spatial and temporal stimuli will be developed. This will be achieved by applying information theoretic methods to study stimulus feature extraction. The results of this work should be relevant to sensory disabled people, e.g., blind or hearing impaired, who could achieve necessary sensory information using skin receptors as an alternate sensory channel. Other research groups are active in the area of tactile displays so the information from this project could be important to the accomplishment of better sensory substitution.