Daniel Goldreich

Summary

Affiliation: McMaster University
Location: Hamilton, Canada
URL: http://psych.mcmaster.ca/goldreich-lab/

Publications

  1. ncbi Short-term visual deprivation does not enhance passive tactile spatial acuity
    Michael Wong
    McMaster Integrative Neuroscience Discovery and Study, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    PLoS ONE 6:e25277. 2011
  2. ncbi Tactile spatial acuity enhancement in blindness: evidence for experience-dependent mechanisms
    Michael Wong
    McMaster Integrative Neuroscience Discovery and Study, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1 Canada
    J Neurosci 31:7028-37. 2011
  3. ncbi Vibrotactile masking experiments reveal accelerated somatosensory processing in congenitally blind braille readers
    Arindam Bhattacharjee
    Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
    J Neurosci 30:14288-98. 2010
  4. ncbi Diminutive digits discern delicate details: fingertip size and the sex difference in tactile spatial acuity
    Ryan M Peters
    Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
    J Neurosci 29:15756-61. 2009
  5. ncbi A Bayesian perceptual model replicates the cutaneous rabbit and other tactile spatiotemporal illusions
    Daniel Goldreich
    Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    PLoS ONE 2:e333. 2007
  6. ncbi Performance of blind and sighted humans on a tactile grating detection task
    Daniel Goldreich
    Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
    Percept Psychophys 68:1363-71. 2006
  7. ncbi Tactile acuity is enhanced in blindness
    Daniel Goldreich
    Department of Occupational Therapy, Rangos School of Health Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15282, USA
    J Neurosci 23:3439-45. 2003
  8. ncbi Texture discrimination and unit recordings in the rat whisker/barrel system
    Thomas Prigg
    Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 15261, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Physiol Behav 77:671-5. 2002
  9. ncbi Hypothermia from prolonged immersion: biophysical parameters of a survivor
    Thomas J Nuckton
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
    J Emerg Med 22:371-4. 2002
  10. ncbi A comparison of 2 methods of measuring rectal temperatures with digital thermometers
    T J Nuckton
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Calif, USA
    Am J Crit Care 10:146-50. 2001

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Publications19

  1. ncbi Short-term visual deprivation does not enhance passive tactile spatial acuity
    Michael Wong
    McMaster Integrative Neuroscience Discovery and Study, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    PLoS ONE 6:e25277. 2011
    ....
  2. ncbi Tactile spatial acuity enhancement in blindness: evidence for experience-dependent mechanisms
    Michael Wong
    McMaster Integrative Neuroscience Discovery and Study, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1 Canada
    J Neurosci 31:7028-37. 2011
    ....
  3. ncbi Vibrotactile masking experiments reveal accelerated somatosensory processing in congenitally blind braille readers
    Arindam Bhattacharjee
    Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
    J Neurosci 30:14288-98. 2010
    ..We conclude that vibrotactile sensitivity is unchanged but that perceptual processing is accelerated in congenitally blind Braille readers...
  4. ncbi Diminutive digits discern delicate details: fingertip size and the sex difference in tactile spatial acuity
    Ryan M Peters
    Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
    J Neurosci 29:15756-61. 2009
    ..Thus, a man and a woman with fingers of equal size will, on average, enjoy equal tactile acuity. We further show that sweat pores, and presumably the Merkel receptors beneath them, are packed more densely in smaller fingers...
  5. ncbi A Bayesian perceptual model replicates the cutaneous rabbit and other tactile spatiotemporal illusions
    Daniel Goldreich
    Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    PLoS ONE 2:e333. 2007
    ..The origins of these perceptual space-time distortions are unknown...
  6. ncbi Performance of blind and sighted humans on a tactile grating detection task
    Daniel Goldreich
    Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
    Percept Psychophys 68:1363-71. 2006
    ..The superior tactile acuity of blind persons may result from the involvement of normally visually responsive cerebrocortical areas in tactile processing, as shown by functional-imaging studies...
  7. ncbi Tactile acuity is enhanced in blindness
    Daniel Goldreich
    Department of Occupational Therapy, Rangos School of Health Sciences, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15282, USA
    J Neurosci 23:3439-45. 2003
    ..The results suggest that crossmodal plasticity may underlie tactile acuity enhancement in blindness...
  8. ncbi Texture discrimination and unit recordings in the rat whisker/barrel system
    Thomas Prigg
    Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 15261, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Physiol Behav 77:671-5. 2002
    ..In some cases, temporal firing patterns differed, although not in a consistent way across recording sites...
  9. ncbi Hypothermia from prolonged immersion: biophysical parameters of a survivor
    Thomas J Nuckton
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
    J Emerg Med 22:371-4. 2002
    ..0282 m(2)/L). We believe that the patient's large body habitus contributed to survival and that surface/volume ratio was likely the biophysical variable most closely associated with decreased cooling...
  10. ncbi A comparison of 2 methods of measuring rectal temperatures with digital thermometers
    T J Nuckton
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Calif, USA
    Am J Crit Care 10:146-50. 2001
    ..33). CONCLUSION: The predictive and dwell modes of digital rectal thermometers yield similar measurements of temperature during steady-state conditions and during states of mild temperature flux...
  11. ncbi Hypothermia and afterdrop following open water swimming: the Alcatraz/San Francisco Swim Study
    T J Nuckton
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, 94143 0130, USA
    Am J Emerg Med 18:703-7. 2000
    ..69). These results suggest that hypothermia and afterdrop can occur commonly after recreational open water swimming, and that participants should be observed for signs of temperature decrease following removal from cold stress...
  12. ncbi Optical imaging and electrophysiology of rat barrel cortex. II. Responses to paired-vibrissa deflections
    D Goldreich
    Department of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
    Cereb Cortex 8:184-92. 1998
    ..Intra-cortical inhibition may serve to convert the sequence of inputs from the whisker array into a barrel cortex magnitude code that can be read by higher cortical areas...
  13. ncbi A Bayesian observer replicates convexity context effects in figure-ground perception
    Daniel Goldreich
    Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
    Seeing Perceiving 25:365-95. 2012
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