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SUMMARY:Neurotechnology of Touch: Early haptic processing and tactual curio
 sities
DESCRIPTION:\nVincent Hayward\nProfessor of Tactile Perception & Technologi
 es\, Leverhulme Fellow School of Advanced Study\, University of London\nAb
 stract\nThe mechanics of contact is to touch what acoustic waves are to au
 dition and what light waves are to vision. The complex physics of contact\
 , however\, differ in fundamental ways from the physics of acoustics and o
 ptics. It therefore should be expected that the organisation of the early 
 stages of somatosensory processing be very different from that of equivale
 nt stages in the other sensory modalities. The presentation will describe 
 some salients facts regarding the physics of touch and will continue with 
 the description recent findings regarding the processing of time-evolving 
 tactile inputs in second-order neurones in the cat.\nBio\nVincent Hayward 
 was the holder of the International Chair in Haptics at the Université Pi
 erre et Marie Curie\, Paris\, from 2008 to 2011 and was subsequently appoi
 nted Professor. From 1989 to 2008\, he was Assistant\, Associate\, and the
 n Full Professor at McGill University\, Montreal\, Canada\, and was direct
 or of the McGill Research Center for Intelligent Machines from 2001 to 200
 4. Vincent Hayward is a Fellow of the IEEE and just completed of an Advanc
 ed Grant from the European Research Council. Since January 2017\, Hayward 
 is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Tactile Perception and Technologies 
 at the Institute of Philosophy\, School of Advanced Study\, University of 
 London.
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/100114/neurotechnology-of-touch-early
 -haptic-processing-and-tactual-curiosities/
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