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THOMAS CK, WESTLING G. Tactile unit properties after human cervical spinal cord injury. Brain 1995 6:1547-1556.  [PDF]

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JOHANSSON RS, WESTLING G. Afferent signals during manipulative tasks in man. In Somatosensory Mechanisms Edited by FRANZEN O, WESTMAN J. 1991 pp 25-48. Macmillan Press, London. [PDF-review]

PHILLIPS JR, JOHANSSON RS, JOHNSON KO. Representation of braille characters in human nerve fibres. Exp Brain Res 1990 81:589-592. [PDF]

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LUNDSTRÖM R. Vibration exposure of the glabrous skin of the human hand. Umeå University Medical Dissertations, New series No 136 1985 Umeå University, Umeå.

LÖFVENBERG J, JOHANSSON RS. Regional differences and interindividual variability in sensitivity to vibration in the glabrous skin of the human hand. Brain Res 1984 301:65-72.  [PDF]

VALLBO AB, JOHANSSON RS. Properties of cutaneous mechanoreceptors in the human hand related to touch sensation. Hum Neurobiol 1984 3:3-14. [PDF-review]

JOHANSSON RS, LAMOTTE RH. Tactile detection thresholds for a single asperity on an otherwise smooth surface. Somatosens Res 1983 1:21-31. [PDF]

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LAMOTTE RH, JOHANSSON RS, PROBER D. Construction of three-dimensional microstructures to be used in studies of the cutaneous perception of texture. J Electrophysiol Tech 1983 9:165-181. [PDF]

JOHANSSON RS, LANDSTRÖM U, LUNDSTRÖM R. Responses of mechanoreceptive afferent units in the glabrous skin of the human hand to sinusoidal skin displacements. Brain Res 1982 244:17-25. [PDF]

JOHANSSON RS, LANDSTRÖM U, LUNDSTRÖM R. Sensitivity to edges of mechanoreceptive afferent units innervating the glabrous skin of the human hand. Brain Res 1982 244:27-35. [PDF]

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JOHANSSON RS, VALLBO AB. Spatial properties of the population of mechanoreceptive units in the glabrous skin of the human hand. Brain Res 1980 184:353-366. [PDF]

JOHANSSON RS, VALLBO AB, WESTLING G. Thresholds of mechanosensitive afferents in the human hand as measured with von Frey hairs. Brain Res 1980 184:343-351.[PDF]

JOHANSSON RS, VALLBO AB. Tactile sensibility in the human hand: relative and absolute densities of four types of mechanoreceptive units in glabrous skin. J Physiol (Lond) 1979 286:283-300. [PDF]

JOHANSSON RS, VALLBO AB. Detection of tactile stimuli. Thresholds of afferent units related to psychophysical thresholds in the human hand. J Physiol (Lond) 1979 297:405-422. [PDF]

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JOHANSSON RS. Tactile afferent units with small and well demarcated receptive fields in the glabrous skin area of the human hand. In Sensory Functions of the Skin of Humans Edited by KENSHALO DR. 1978 pp 129-145. Plenum Press., New York. [PDF-review]

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JOHANSSON RS. Skin mechanoreceptors in the human hand: Receptive field characteristics. In Sensory Functions of the Skin in Primates, with special reference to Man, Edited by ZOTTERMAN Y. 1976 pp 159-170. Pergamon Press Ltd., Oxford. [PDF]

JOHANSSON RS. Receptive field sensitivity profile of mechanosensitive units innervating the glabrous skin of the human hand. Brain Res 1976 104:330-334. [PDF]

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