Sentences with phrase «adapting afferents»
Until now, rapidly adapting afferents were primarily thought to play a role in detecting when an object was slipping from a grasp.
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Three different types of afferents convey information about touch to the brain: slowly adapting type 1 (SA1), rapidly adapting (RA) and Pacinian (PC).
The majority of studies investigating the neural basis of texture perception have used coarse materials, such as gratings and Braille patterns, which activate a set of receptors in the skin called slowly adapting type 1 (SA1) afferents.