Scholarpedia of Touch

Scholarpedia's Encyclopedia of Touch provides a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed articles written by leading researchers, detailing our current scientific understanding of tactile sensing and its neural substrates in animals including humans. The encyclopedia allows ideas and insights to be shared between researchers working on different aspects of touch and in different species, including research in synthetic touch systems. In addition, this encyclopedia raises awareness of research in tactile sensing and increases scientific and public interest in the field.
The articles address subjects including tactile control, whiskered robots, vibrissal coding, the molecular basis of touch, invertebrate mechanoreception, fingertip transducers and tactile sensing.
All the articles in this encyclopedia provide in-depth and state-of-the-art scholarly treatment of the academic topics concerned, making it an excellent reference work for academics, professionals and students.

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Scholarpedia’s Encyclopedia of Touch provides a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed articles written by leading researchers, detailing our current scientific understanding of tactile sensing and its neural substrates in animals including humans. The encyclopedia allows ideas and insights to be shared between researchers working on different aspects of touch and in different species, including research in synthetic touch systems. In addition, this encyclopedia raises awareness of research in tactile sensing and increases scientific and public interest in the field.
The articles address subjects including tactile control, whiskered robots, vibrissal coding, the molecular basis of touch, invertebrate mechanoreception, fingertip transducers and tactile sensing.
All the articles in this encyclopedia provide in-depth and state-of-the-art scholarly treatment of the academic topics concerned, making it an excellent reference work for academics, professionals and students.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Ehu Ahissar (Herausgeber), Ehud Ahissar (Herausgeber), Eugene Izhikevich (Herausgeber), Tony Prescott (Herausgeber), Tony J. Prescott (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9789462391321
• ISBN: 978-94-62-39132-1
• Seiten: 827
• Abmessung: 161 mm x 239 mm x 50 mm
• Gewicht: 1456 g
• Illustration: XXII, 827 p. 266 illus., 188 illus. in color.
• Serien: Atlantis Press; Scholarpedia; Atlantis Press; Scholarpedia
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Informatik, EDV > Anwendungs-Software; B, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, computer science, molecular biology, bioinformatics, Neurosciences, Zoology, Information technology: general issues, Computational Intelligence, Control, Robotics, Automation, Computer simulation, Computer modelling & simulation, Simulation and Modeling, Robotics and Automation, Neurobiology, Haptics;Neuroscience;Robotics;Tactile sensing;Touch