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PROF TONY GOODWIN



Contact Details

Organization: Medicine, Anatomy and Cell Biology
Position: DEPUTY HEAD OF SCHOOL (MEDICINE), HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
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Homepage: http://www.anatomy.unimelb.edu.au/researchlabs/goodwin/index.html
Work: 8344 5804
Fax: 9347 5219
Room: E726
Level: 07
Building: Medical Centre
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Tactile sensation hand function, mechanoreceptors, primary afferent, population response Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Electrical Engineering University of Witwatersrand 31-Dec-1967
Master of Science California Institute of Technology 31-Jul-1969
Doctor of Philosophy California Institute of Technology 31-Jul-1972

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Optical imaging of brain activity: studies of the neural basis of sensory perception, plasticity and behaviour Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2004
The whisker sensory system: processing information about object features Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005
Neural basis of attention Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Physiological mechanisms of the receptor system
    Year: 2008
    Book: Human Haptic Perception: Basic and Applications
    Publisher: Birkhauser(Basel)
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  • Physiological responses of sensory afferents in glabrous and hairy skin of humans and monkeys
    Year: 2008
    Book: The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference Volume 6
    Publisher: Elsevier(Amsterdam)
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Major Reference Works

  • Encyclopedia of Neuroscience:Processing of Tactile Stimuli
    Year: 2008
    Reference Work Title: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience
    Publisher: Springer-Verlag Heidelberg(Heidelberg)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Paradoxes in tactile adaptation Focus on 'Vibratory Adaptation in cutaneous mechanoreceptive afferents' and 'time-course of vibratory adaptation and recovery in cutaneous mechanoreceptive afferents'
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Neurophysiology
    Volume: 94
    Page numbers: 2995-2996
    Publisher: American Physiological Society(Maryland)
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Major Reference Works

  • Somatosensory Systems:Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: Somatosensory Systems
    Publisher: Wiley - John Wiley & Sons(Brisbane)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Human ability to scale and discriminate forces typical of those occurring during grasp and manipulation
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 3394-3401
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  • Sensory signals in neural populations underlying tactile perception and manipulation
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Annual Review of Neuroscience
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 53-77
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Influence of object shape on responses of human tactile afferents under conditions characteristic of manipulation
    Year: 2003
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 164-176
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • How is tactile information affected by parameters of the population such as non-uniform fiber sensitivity, innervation geometry and response variability?
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Behavioural Brain Research
    Volume: 135
    Page numbers: 5-10
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Encoding of Direction of Fingertip Forces by Human Tactile Afferents
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 20
    Page numbers: 8222-8237
    Publisher: Society of Neuroscience(Washington DC)
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  • Tactile Discrimination of Edge Shape: Limits on Spatial Resolution Imposed by Parameters of the Peripheral Neural Population
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 19
    Page numbers: 7751-7763
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