Goodwin Lab ~ Publications

Wheat HE, Salo LM, Goodwin AW (2004) Human ability to scale and discriminate forces typical of those occurring during grasp and manipulation. J Neurosci 24:3394-3401.

Goodwin AW, Wheat HE (2004) Sensory signals in neural populations underlying tactile perception and manipulation. Annu Rev Neurosci 27:53-77

Jenmalm P, Birznieks I, Goodwin AW, Johansson RS (2003) Influence of object shape on responses of human tactile afferents under conditions characteristic of manipulation. J Neurophysiol 79:1643-52.

Birznieks I, Jenmalm P, Goodwin AW, Johansson RS (2001) Encoding of direction of fingertip forces by human tactile afferents. J Neurosci 21:8222-37.

Wheat HE, Goodwin AW (2001) Tactile discrimination of edge shape: limits on spatial resolution imposed by parameters of the peripheral neural population. J Neurosci 21:7751-63.

Wheat HE, Goodwin AW (2000) Tactile discrimination of gaps by slowly adapting afferents: effects of population parameters and anisotropy in the fingerpad. J Neurophysiol 84:1430-44.

Bisley JW, Goodwin AW, Wheat HE (2000) Responses of slowly adapting type I afferents from the sides and end of the finger to stimuli applied to the central part of the fingerpad. J Neurophysiol 84:57-64.

Goodwin AW, Wheat HE (1999) Effects of non-uniform fiber sensitivity, innervation geometry, and noise on information relayed by a population of SAI primary afferents fro the fingerpad. J Neurosci 19:8057-8070.

Goodwin AW, Jenmalm P, Johansson RS (1998) Control of grip force when tilting objects: effect of curvature of grasped surfaces and applied tangential torque. J Neurosci 18:10724-34.

Jenmalm P, Goodwin AW, Johansson RS (1998) Control of grasp stability when humans lift objects with different surface curvatures. J Neurophysiol 79:1643-52.

Dodson MJ, Goodwin AW, Browning AS, Gehring HM (1998) Peripheral neural mechanisms determining the orientation of cylinders grasped by the digits. J Neurosci 18:521-530.

Goodwin AW, Macefield VG, Bisley JW (1997) Encoding of object curvature by tactile afferents from human fingers. J Neurophysiol 78:2881-8.

Wheat HE, Goodwin AW, Browning AS (1995) Tactile resolution: peripheral neural mechanisms underlying the human capacity to determine positions of objects contacting the fingerpad. J Neurosci 15:5582-5595.

Goodwin AW, Browning AS, Wheat HE (1995) Representation of curved surfaces in responses of mechanoreceptive afferent fibers innervating the monkey's fingerpad. J Neurosci 15:798-810.

Goodwin AW, Morley JW (1987) Sinusoidal movement of a grating across the monkey's fingerpad: representation of grating and movement features in afferent fiber responses. J Neurosci 7:2168-2180.