Series Editor:
Morton Friedman, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Edward Carterette, Department of Psychology, University of California
Edited by
Lawrence Kruger, University of California, Los Angeles
Description
An explosion of advances in the area of tactile perception and pain led to the development of this comprehensive, state-of-the-art text
on basic research and clinical practice. Equal parts psychology and neuroscience,
Pain and Touch covers peripheral cutaneous
tactile information processing, sensory mapping, tactile exploratory behavior, neurophysiology of nociception and nociceptors in pain
research, clinical scaling methods for psychophysics of pain, and paincontrol, pathology, and therapeutics.
Audience:
Researchers, academics, and clinicians interested in the study of tactile perception and pain: perceptual psychologists, psychophysicists, neuroscientists, and pain therapists.
