Physiology and Functional Anatomy of the Human Somatosensory System
Interests
- Somatotopy in Primary and Secondary Somatosensory Areas
- Impact of Inhibition on Signal Processing in S-I: Interaction and Shaping of Receptive Fields
- Tactile Discrimination
- Somatosensory Working Memory
- Attentional Modulation of Cortical Representation
- Lesion-induced Reorganisation in the Somatosensory System (in close cooperation with the Stroke Group)
Methods
- Somatosensory Electrical and Tactile Stimulation:
- electrical digit and median nerve
- piezoelectric vibratory (low and high frequency)
- tactile pattern (Braille)
- Psychophysics / Behavioral Studies
- BOLD-fMRI
- EEG and Somatosensory Evoked Potentials (SEPs)
- Simultaneous EEG-fMRI Acquisition
Research
Selected Papers
Ruben J, Krause T, Taskin B, Blankenburg F, Moosmann M, Villringer A (2005) Subarea-specific Suppressive Interaction in the BOLD Responses to Simultaneous Finger Stimulation in Human Primary Somatosensory Cortex: Evidence for Increasing Rostral-to-caudal Convergence. Cereb Cortex. Abstract (PubMed) PDF (Free)
Blankenburg F, Taskin B, Ruben J, Moosmann M, Ritter P, Curio G, Villringer A (2003) Imperceptible stimuli and sensory processing impediment. Science 299: 1864. Abstract (PubMed)
Thees S, Blankenburg F, Taskin B, Curio G, Villringer A (2003) Dipole source localization and fMRI of simultaneously recorded data applied to somatosensory categorization. Neuroimage 18: 707–719. Abstract (PubMed)
Blankenburg F, Ruben J, Meyer R, Schwiemann J, Villringer A (2003) Evidence for a rostral-to-caudal somatotopic organization in human primary somatosensory cortex with mirror-reversal in areas 3b and 1. Cereb Cortex 13: 987–993. Abstract (PubMed) PDF (Free)
Ruben J, Schwiemann J, Deuchert M, Meyer R, Krause T, Curio G, Villringer K, Kurth R, Villringer A (2001) Somatotopic organization of human secondary somatosensory cortex. Cereb Cortex 11:463–473. Abstract (PubMed) PDF (Free)
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