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Correlations of Temperature Sensation and Neural Activity: A Second Approximation

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Thermoreception and Temperature Regulation

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Some 12 years have passed since our first attempt to relate changes in thermal sensations to changes in neural activity (Kenshalo 1976), and this is a timely opportunity to consider the progress that has been made since that first report. This particular relationship is but a part of a more general correlation between sensory and physical events, or in Herbert Hensel’s terminology, between phenophysics (psychophysics) and phenophysiology (psychophysiology) (Hensel 1982; Hensel and Koneitzny 1979).

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Kenshalo, R. (1990). Correlations of Temperature Sensation and Neural Activity: A Second Approximation. In: Bligh, J., Voigt, K., Braun, H.A., Brück, K., Heldmaier, G. (eds) Thermoreception and Temperature Regulation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75076-2_8

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