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The Neural Basis of the Sensory Quality of Warmth

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Sensory Functions of the Skin of Humans

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Our knowledge about temperature sensation is mainly based upon two experimental approaches which differ remarkably in aim and scope. First, the relationship between temperature sensation and thermal stimuli was investigated by using psychophysical (“phenophysical”) methods (Kenshalo, 1970; Marks and Stevens, 1968; Stevens and Stevens, 1960; Stevens and Marks, 1967, 1971; Vendrik, 1970). Second, the neural responses to thermal stimuli in infrahuman species (cats, monkeys) were compared to the sensations evoked in man by identical stimuli, thus, implying that each sensory modality in each species is mediated by the same set of sensory receptors (Järvilehto, 1973; Johnson, Darian-Smith, and LaMotte, 1973; Darian-Smith, Johnson, and LaMotte, 1975; Kenshalo, 1976; Molinari and Kenshalo, 1977; LaMotte and Campbell, 1978).

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Konietzny, F., Hensel, H. (1979). The Neural Basis of the Sensory Quality of Warmth. In: Kenshalo, D.R. (eds) Sensory Functions of the Skin of Humans. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3039-4_13

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