The sense of flutter-vibration: comparison of the human capacity with response patterns of mechanoreceptive afferents from the monkey hand.

IT WAS OUR PURPOSE in the studies described in the intact, behaving organism are therefore this paper to combine two experimental of the first importance for sensory neurophys-designs which differ remarkably in method, iology, for they establish: 7) the dynamic and in their historical and conceptual de- range required of the input on the afferent side of the system to account for the output-the measured sensory capacities; 2) the informa-tion about the stimulus which must be pre-served in the initial encoding to account for the over-all information transmitting capac-ity of the nervous system in a particular sensory sphere; and 3) a basis for determining which of the many codes available to the pulse-operated input sys tern may be of func-tional significance in the sensory performance measured. It is thought that a continued cor-