TY - BOOK AU - Prescott,Tony AU - Ahissar,Ehud AU - Izhikevich,Eugene ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Scholarpedia of Touch T2 - Scholarpedia SN - 9789462391338 AV - Q334-342 U1 - 006.3 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Paris PB - Atlantis Press, Imprint: Atlantis Press KW - Computer science KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Computer simulation KW - Bioinformatics KW - Neurobiology KW - Computational intelligence KW - Robotics KW - Automation KW - Computer Science KW - Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics) KW - Simulation and Modeling KW - Computational Intelligence KW - Robotics and Automation N2 - Scholarpedia?s Encyclopedia of Touch provides a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed articles written by leading researchers, detailing our current scientific understanding of tactile sensing and its neural substrates in animals including humans. The encyclopedia allows ideas and insights to be shared between researchers working on different aspects of touch and in different species, including research in synthetic touch systems. In addition, this encyclopedia raises awareness of research in tactile sensing and increases scientific and public interest in the field. The articles address subjects including tactile control, whiskered robots, vibrissal coding, the molecular basis of touch, invertebrate mechanoreception, fingertip transducers and tactile sensing. All the articles in this encyclopedia provide in-depth and state-of-the-art scholarly treatment of the academic topics concerned, making it an excellent reference work for academics, professionals and students UR - http://148.231.10.114:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-133-8 ER -