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. 1967 Feb 3;155(3762):597-600.
doi: 10.1126/science.155.3762.597.

Neural basis of the sense of flutter-vibration

V B Mountcastle, W H Talbot, I Darian-Smith, H H Kornhuber

Neural basis of the sense of flutter-vibration

V B Mountcastle et al. Science. .

Abstract

Comparison of human detection thresholds for oscillatory movement of the skin of the hand with response properties of first-order myelinated mechanoreceptive afferents from the monkey's hand, activated in an identical stimulus pattern, indicates that flutter-vibration is a dual form of mechanical sensibility, served peripherally by two different sets of fibers.

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