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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 81 No. 6 June 1999, pp. 2701-2710
Copyright ©1999 by the American Physiological Society

SA1 and RA Receptive Fields, Response Variability, and Population Responses Mapped with a Probe Array

F. Vega-Bermudez and K. O. Johnson

Department of Neuroscience and Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218

Vega-Bermudez, F. and K. O. Johnson. SA1 and RA Receptive Fields, Response Variability, and Population Responses Mapped with a Probe Array. J. Neurophysiol. 81: 2701-2710, 1999.SA1 and RA receptive fields, response variability, and population responses mapped with a probe array. Twenty-four slowly adapting type 1 (SA1) and 26 rapidly adapting (RA) cutaneous mechanoreceptive afferents in the rhesus monkey were studied with an array of independently controlled, punctate probes that covered an entire fingerpad. Each afferent had a receptive field (RF) on a single fingerpad and was studied at 73 skin sites (50 mm2). The entire array was lowered to 1.6 mm below the point of initial skin contact (the background indentation) before delivering single-probe indentations. SA1 and RA responses differed in several ways. 1) SA1 RF boundaries were affected much less by indentation depth than were RA boundaries, and the SA1 RF areas were much more uniform in size. The mean SA1 RF area grew from 5.1 to 8.8 mm2 as the indentation depth increased from 50 to 500 µm; the mean RA RF area grew from 5.5 to 22.4 mm2 over the same intensity range. 2) SA1 RFs were more elongated than RA RFs. Elongated RFs were oriented in all directions relative to the skin ridges and the finger axis. 3) SA1 impulse rates were linear functions of indentation depth at all probe locations in the RF; RA responses tended toward saturation beginning at 100 µm indentation depth when the probe was over the HS. Similarities between SA1 and RA responses were that 1) both were extremely repeatable with SDs < 1 impulse per trial and 2) both had population responses (number of impulses) that were nearly linear functions of indentation depth. However, SA1s represented increasing indentation depth by increasing impulse rates in a small, relatively constant group of afferents, whereas the RAs represented increasing indentation depth predominantly by the recruitment of new afferents at a distance.




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