Tactile Mechanics
Tactile Mechanics
Date: Friday 05 October 2018
Time: 11:30 - 13:00
Venue: Room- 526, James Watt South Building, University of Glasgow
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Speaker: Prof. Vincent Hayward
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Document: Prof. Vincent Hayward
The astonishing variety of phenomena resulting from the contact between fingers and objects may be regarded as a formidable trove of information that can be extracted by organisms to learn about the nature and the properties of objects. This richness, which is completely different from that available to the other senses, is likely to have fashioned our somatosensory system at all levels of its organisation, from early mechanics to cognition. The talk will illustrate this idea through examples and show how the physics of mechanical interactions shape the messages that are sent to the brain; and how the early stages of the somatosensory system en route to the primary areas are organised to process these messages.