From Skin Mechanics to Tactile Neural Coding: Predicting Afferent Neural Dynamics During Active Touch and Perception

First order cutaneous neurons allow object recognition, texture discrimination, and sensorimotor feedback. Their function is well-investigated under passive stimulation while their role during active touch or sensorimotor control is understudied. To understand how human perception and sensorimotor c...

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Vydáno v:IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering Ročník 69; číslo 12; s. 3748 - 3759
Hlavní autoři: Wei, Yuyang, McGlone, Francis P, Marshall, Andrew G, Makdani, Adarsh, Zou, Zhenmin, Ren, Lei, Wei, Guowu
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: United States IEEE 01.12.2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Témata:
Active control
active touch
Coding
Computational modeling
Computational neuroscience
Dynamic models
FE Human hand
Fibers
Humans
Mathematical models
Mechanoreceptors - physiology
Microneurography
Neural coding
Neurons
Neurons, Afferent - physiology
Neurophysiological
Neurophysiology
Numerical models
Numerical prediction
Object recognition
Optimization
Pattern recognition
Perception
Sensorimotor system
Sensory neurons
Skin
skin mechanics
Tactile discrimination
Tactile stimuli
Texture recognition
Touch
Touch - physiology
Touch Perception
ISSN:0018-9294, 1558-2531, 1558-2531
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Shrnutí:First order cutaneous neurons allow object recognition, texture discrimination, and sensorimotor feedback. Their function is well-investigated under passive stimulation while their role during active touch or sensorimotor control is understudied. To understand how human perception and sensorimotor controlling strategy depend on cutaneous neural signals under active tactile exploration, the finite element (FE) hand and Izhikevich neural dynamic model were combined to predict the cutaneous neural dynamics and the resulting perception during a discrimination test. Using in-vivo microneurography generated single afferent recordings, 75% of the data was applied for the model optimization and another 25% was used for validation. By using this integrated numerical model, the predicted tactile neural signals of the single afferent fibers agreed well with the microneurography test results, achieving the out-of-sample values of 0.94 and 0.82 for slowly adapting type I (SAI) and fast adapting type I unit (FAI) respectively. Similar discriminating capability with the human subject was achieved based on this computational model. Comparable performance with the published numerical model on predicting the cutaneous neural response under passive stimuli was also presented, ensuring the potential applicability of this multi-level numerical model in studying the human tactile sensing mechanisms during active touch. The predicted population-level 1st order afferent neural signals under active touch suggest that different coding strategies might be applied to the afferent neural signals elicited from different cutaneous neurons simultaneously.
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ISSN:0018-9294
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DOI:10.1109/TBME.2022.3177006