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Johan Wessberg
Professor
Department ofAbout Johan Wessberg
Professor and Principal Investigator Department of Physiology / Neurophysiology
Research group Tactile Sensory Mechanisms of the Human Hand and Hairy Skin
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Slowly-adapting type II afferents contribute to conscious touch sensation in humans: Evidence from single unit intraneural
microstimulation
R. H. Watkins, Mario Amante, Helena Backlund Wasling, Johan Wessberg, R. Ackerley
Journal of Physiology-London - 2022 -
A topographical and physiological exploration of C-tactile afferents and their response to menthol and
histamine.
Line Sofie Löken, Helena Backlund Wasling, Håkan Olausson, Francis McGlone, Johan Wessberg
Journal of neurophysiology - 2022 -
Nav1.7 is required for normal C-low threshold mechanoreceptor function in humans and
mice.
Steven J Middleton, Irene Perini, Themistocleous Andreas C, Greg A Weir, Kirsty McCann, Allison M Barry, Andrew Marshall, Michael Lee, Leah M Mayo, Manon Bohic, Georgios Baskozos, India Morrison, Line Sofie Löken, Sarah McIntyre, Saad S Nagi, Roland Staud, Isac Sehlstedt, Richard D Johnson, Johan Wessberg, John N Wood, Christopher G Woods, Aziz Moqrich, Håkan Olausson, David L Bennett
Brain : a journal of neurology - 2022 -
Human low-threshold mechanoafferent responses to pure changes in friction controlled using an ultrasonic haptic
device
Mariama Dione, Roger H. Watkins, E. Vezzoli, B. Lemaire-Semail, Johan Wessberg
Scientific Reports - 2021 -
Evidence for sparse C-tactile afferent innervation of glabrous human hand
skin
Roger H. Watkins, Mariama Dione, Rochelle Ackerley, Helena Backlund Wasling, Johan Wessberg, Line Sofie Löken
Journal of neurophysiology - 2021 -
Hand Temperature Is Not Consistent With Illusory Strength During the Rubber Hand
Illusion.
Victoria Ashley Lang, Jan Zbinden, Johan Wessberg, Max Ortiz-Catalan
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference - 2021 -
Neural feedback strategies to improve grasping coordination in neuromusculoskeletal
prostheses
E. Mastinu, L. F. Engels, F. Clemente, Mariama Dione, Paolo Sassu, O. Aszmann, Rickard Brånemark, B. Hakansson, M. Controzzi, Johan Wessberg, C. Cipriani, Max Jair Ortiz-Catalan
Scientific Reports - 2020 -
Spatio-temporal profile of brain activity during gentle touch investigated with
magnetoencephalography
Elin Eriksson Hagberg, Rochelle Ackerley, Daniel Lundqvist, Justin F. Schneiderman, V. Jousmäki, Johan Wessberg
NeuroImage - 2019 -
Imaging human cortical responses to intraneural microstimulation using
magnetoencephalography
G. C. O'Neill, Roger H. Watkins, Rochelle Ackerley, E. L. Barratt, A. Sengupta, M. Asghar, R. M. S. Panchuelo, M. J. Brookes, P. M. Glover, Johan Wessberg, S. T. Francis
NeuroImage - 2019 -
Human 8-to 10-Hz pulsatile motor output during active exploration of textured surfaces reflects the textures' frictional
properties
Mariama Dione, Johan Wessberg
Journal of Neurophysiology - 2019 -
Differential effects of radiant and mechanically applied thermal stimuli on human C-tactile afferent firing
patterns.
Rochelle Ackerley, Katarina Wiklund Fernström, Helena Backlund Wasling, Roger H. Watkins, Richard D. Johnson, Åke Vallbo, Johan Wessberg
Journal of neurophysiology - 2018 -
Case Studies in Neuroscience: Sensations elicited and discrimination ability from nerve cuff stimulation in an amputee over
time
Rochelle Ackerley, Helena Backlund Wasling, M. Ortiz-Catalan, R. Branemark, Johan Wessberg
Journal of Neurophysiology - 2018 -
The relation between human hair follicle density and touch
perception
Emma H. Jönsson, J. Bendas, K. Weidner, Johan Wessberg, Håkan Olausson, Helena Backlund Wasling, I. Croy
Scientific Reports - 2017 -
Touch and Hearing Mediate
Osseoperception
Francesco Clemente, Bo Håkansson, Christian Cipriani, Johan Wessberg, Katarzyna Kulbacka-Ortiz, Rickard Brånemark, K. J. F. Jansson, Max Jair Ortiz-Catalan
Scientific Reports - 2017 -
An intra-neural microstimulation system for ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging and
magnetoencephalography
P. M. Glover, Roger H. Watkins, G. C. O'Neill, Rochelle Ackerley, R. Sanchez-Panchuelo, F. McGlone, M. J. Brookes, Johan Wessberg, S. T. Francis
Journal of Neuroscience Methods - 2017 -
Optimal delineation of single C-tactile and C-nociceptive afferents in humans by latency
slowing
Roger H. Watkins, Johan Wessberg, Helena Backlund Wasling, J. P. Dunham, Håkan Olausson, Richard D. Johnson, Rochelle Ackerley
Journal of Neurophysiology - 2017 -
Sensual touch: A slow touch system revealed with
microneurography
Åke Vallbo, Line Sofie Löken, Johan Wessberg
Affective touch and the neurophysiology of CT afferents. Olausson, H., Wessberg, J., Morrison, I., McGlone, F. (Eds.) - 2016 -
The event-related somatosensory responses to long lasting gentle touch measured with
magnetoencephalography
Elin Eriksson, Daniel Lundqvist, Justin F. Schneiderman, Veikko Jousmäki, Johan Wessberg
Society for Neuroscience 2016 - 2016 -
Tactile afferent responses to mechanical pink noise bursts of varying amplitude and duration in
humans
Mario Amante, Roger H. Watkins, Serena Bocherau, Rochelle Ackerley, Johan Wessberg, Vincent Hayward
Society for Neuroscience 2016 - 2016 -
Afferent responses to tactile stimulation by natural textures during active touch in
humans
Mariama Dione, Roger H. Watkins, Rochelle Ackerley, Johan Wessberg
Society for Neuroscience 2016 - 2016 -
Affective touch and the neurophysiology of CT
afferents
Håkan Olausson, Johan Wessberg, India Morrison, Francis McGlone
2016 -
Mapping quantal touch using 7 Tesla functional magnetic resonance imaging and single-unit intraneural
microstimulation
R. M. S. Panchuelo, Rochelle Ackerley, P. M. Glover, R. W. Bowtell, Johan Wessberg, S. T. Francis, F. McGlone
Elife - 2016 -
The Neurobiology Shaping Affective Touch: Expectation, Motivation, and Meaning in the Multisensory
Context
Dan-Mikael Ellingsen, Siri Leknes, G. Loseth, Johan Wessberg, H. Olausson
Frontiers in Psychology - 2016 -
Emotional Concept
Development
Claes Strannegård, Simone Cirillo, Johan Wessberg
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Artificial General Intelligence: 8th International Conference, AGI 2015, AGI 2015, Berlin, Germany, July 22-25, 2015, Proceedings /eds. Bieger, Jordi, Ben Goertzel, and Alexey Potapov - 2015 -
Generalized placebo improvement of both pain and pleasure evoked by specific suggestions of therapeutic
benefit
Dan-Mikael Ellingsen, Siri Leknes, Chantal Triscoli, Håkan Olausson, Johan Wessberg
Society for Neuroscience 2015 - 2015 -
Expectation of specific therapeutic effects induces generalized placebo improvement of both pain and
pleasure
Dan-Mikael Ellingsen, Siri Leknes, Chantal Triscoli, Håkan Olausson, Johan Wessberg
Society for Neuroscience 2014 - 2014 -
Discriminative and Affective Touch: Sensing and
Feeling.
Francis McGlone, Johan Wessberg, Håkan Olausson
Neuron - 2014 -
Human C-tactile afferents are tuned to the temperature of a skin-stroking
caress
Rochelle Ackerley, Helena Backlund Wasling, Jaquette Liljencrantz, Håkan Olausson, Richard D. Johnson, Johan Wessberg
Journal of Neuroscience - 2014 -
In touch with your emotions: Oxytocin and touch change social impressions while others' facial expressions can alter
touch
Dan-Mikael Ellingsen, Johan Wessberg, Olga Chelnokova, Håkan Olausson, Bruno Laeng, Siri Leknes
Psychoneuroendocrinology - 2014 -
A Cognitive Architecture Based on Dual Process
Theory
Claes Strannegård, Rickard von Haugwitz, Johan Wessberg, Balkenius Christian
Lecture Notes in Computer Science - 2013 -
EEG activity evoked from the microstimulation of single mechanoafferents in
humans
Rochelle Ackerley, Helena Backlund Wasling, Mats Trulsson, Johan Wessberg
Society for Neuroscience 2013 - 2013 -
Placebo improves pleasure and pain through opposite modulation of sensory
processing
Dan-Mikael Ellingsen, Johan Wessberg, M. Eikemo, Jaquette Liljencrantz, T. Endestad, Håkan Olausson, Siri Leknes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2013 -
Oxytocin enhances pupil dilation and sensitivity to 'hidden' emotional
expressions.
Siri Leknes, Johan Wessberg, Dan-Mikael Ellingsen, Olga Chelnokova, Håkan Olausson, Bruno Laeng
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience - 2013 -
Ultra-late EEG potential evoked by preferential activation of unmyelinated tactile afferents in human hairy
skin
Rochelle Ackerley, Elin Eriksson, Johan Wessberg
Neuroscience Letters - 2013 -
Transparent Neural Networks: Integrating Concept Formation and
Reasoning
Claes Strannegård, Olle Häggström, Johan Wessberg, Christian Balkenius
Lecture notes in computer sciences: 5th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2012; Oxford; United Kingdom; 8 December 2012 through 11 December 2012 - 2012 -
Continuous reflexive control of arm reaching by a direct dynamic link between the target and the neural circuits housing the spatiotemporal structure of the
movement
Sergei Perfiliev, Johan Wessberg
Society for Neuroscience 2012 - 2012 -
Microstimulation of single mechanoreceptor afferents in humans: Differences in sensation discrimination in the glabrous skin of the
hand
Rochelle Ackerley, Helena Backlund Wasling, Johan Wessberg
Society for Neuroscience 2012 - 2012 -
Clustered sampling improves random subspace brain
mapping
Malin Björnsdotter, Johan Wessberg
Pattern recognition - 2012 -
An fMRI study on cortical responses during active self-touch and passive touch from
others
Rochelle Ackerley, E. Hassan, A. Curran, Johan Wessberg, Håkan Olausson, F. McGlone
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience - 2012 -
Wetness perception across body
sites
Rochelle Ackerley, Håkan Olausson, Johan Wessberg, F. McGlone
Neuroscience Letters - 2012 -
Roughness Encoding in Human and Biomimetic Artificial Touch: Spatiotemporal Frequency Modulation and Structural Anisotropy of
Fingerprints
Calogero Maria Oddo, Lucia Beccai, Johan Wessberg, Helena Backlund Wasling, Fabio Mattioli, Maria Chiara Carrozza
Sensors - 2011 -
A mechatronic platform for human touch
studies
Calogero Maria Oddo, Lucia Beccai, Nicola Vitiello, Helena Backlund Wasling, Johan Wessberg, Maria Chiara Carrozza
Mechatronics - 2011 -
Pleasantness of touch in human glabrous and hairy skin: Order effects on affective
ratings
Line Sofie Löken, Mika Evert, Johan Wessberg
Brain Research - 2011 -
A Monte Carlo method for locally multivariate brain
mapping.
Malin Björnsdotter, Karin Rylander, Johan Wessberg
NeuroImage - 2011 -
Reduced C-afferent fibre density affects perceived pleasantness and empathy for
touch.
India Morrison, Line Sofie Löken, Jan Minde, Johan Wessberg, Irene Perini, Inger Nennesmo, Håkan Olausson
Brain : a journal of neurology - 2011 -
Identification and localization of human brain activity patterns using particle swarm
optimization.
Malin Björnsdotter, Johan Wessberg
The 2nd International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering, Singapore - 2010 -
The neurophysiology of unmyelinated tactile
afferents.
Håkan Olausson, Johan Wessberg, India Morrison, Francis McGlone, Åke Vallbo
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews - 2010 -
Reflexive limb selection and control of reach direction to moving targets in cats, monkeys, and
humans.
Sergei Perfiliev, Tadashi Isa, Bo Johnels, Göran Steg, Johan Wessberg
Journal of neurophysiology - 2010 -
Particle swarm voxel clustering for multivariate fMRI
mapping
Malin Björnsdotter, Johan Wessberg
15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2009, San Fransisco, USA, 2009 - 2009 -
Somatotopic organization of gentle touch processing in the posterior insular
cortex.
Malin Björnsdotter, Line Sofie Löken, Håkan Olausson, Åke Vallbo, Johan Wessberg
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 2009 -
Coding of pleasant touch by unmyelinated afferents in
humans.
Line Sofie Löken, Johan Wessberg, India Morrison, Francis McGlone, Håkan Olausson
Nature neuroscience - 2009 -
Towards unified analysis of EEG and fMRI: A Comparison of Classifiers for Single-trial Pattern
Recognition
Simon Bergstrand, Timo Niiniskorpi, Malin Björnsdotter Åberg, Johan Wessberg
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Porto, Portugal - 2009 -
Particle swarm feature selection for fMRI pattern
classification
Timo Niiniskorpi, Malin Björnsdotter Åberg, Johan Wessberg
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Porto, Portugal - 2009 -
Brain decoding of texture processing using independent component analysis and support vector
machines
S Beckman, Malin Björnsdotter Åberg, Helena Backlund Wasling, Johan Wessberg
EEE International symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing, Budapest, Hungary, 26-28, August 2009 - 2009 -
An evolutionary approach to the identification of informative voxel clusters for brain state
discrimination
Malin Björnsdotter Åberg, Johan Wessberg
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing - 2008 -
Functional role of unmyelinated tactile afferents in human hairy skin: sympathetic response and perceptual
localization.
Håkan Olausson, Jonathan Cole, Karin Rylander, Francis McGlone, Yves Lamarre, Gunnar B Wallin, Heidrun H Krämer, Johan Wessberg, Mikael Elam, M Catherine Bushnell, Åke Vallbo
Experimental brain research. Experimentelle Hirnforschung. Expérimentation cérébrale - 2008 -
An evolutionary approach to multivariate feature selection for fMRI pattern
analysis
Malin C.B. Åberg, Line Sofie Löken, Johan Wessberg
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Funchal, Portugal - 2008 -
Pleasant
Touch
Åke Vallbo, Håkan Olausson, Johan Wessberg
Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Larry R Squire, Editor-in-Chief - 2008 -
Unmyelinated tactile afferents have opposite effects on insular and somatosensory cortical
processing.
Håkan Olausson, Jonathan Cole, Åke Vallbo, Francis McGlone, Mikael Elam, Heidrun H Krämer, Karin Rylander, Johan Wessberg, M Catherine Bushnell
Neuroscience letters - 2008 -
Cortical processing of lateral skin stretch stimulation in
humans.
Helena Backlund Wasling, Linda Lundblad, Line Sofie Löken, Johan Wessberg, Katarina Wiklund, Ulf Norrsell, Håkan Olausson
Experimental brain research. Experimentelle Hirnforschung. Expérimentation cérébrale - 2008 -
Discriminative touch and emotional
touch.
Francis McGlone, Åke Vallbo, Håkan Olausson, Line Sofie Löken, Johan Wessberg
Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale - 2007 -
Evolutionary optimization of classifiers and features for single trial EEG
Discrimination.
Malin C.B. Åberg, Johan Wessberg
Biomedical Engineering Online - 2007 -
Interpreting spatial and temporal neural activity through a recurrent neural network brain-machine
interface.
Justin C Sanchez, Deniz Erdogmus, Miguel A L Nicolelis, Johan Wessberg, Jose C Principe
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - 2005 -
Optimizing a linear algorithm for real-time robotic control using chronic cortical ensemble recordings in
monkeys.
Johan Wessberg, Miguel A L Nicolelis
Journal of cognitive neuroscience - 2004 -
Receptive field properties of unmyelinated tactile afferents in the human
skin.
Johan Wessberg, Håkan Olausson, Katarina Wiklund Fernström, Åke Vallbo
Journal of neurophysiology - 2003 -
Divide-and-conquer approach for brain machine interfaces: nonlinear mixture of competitive linear
models.
Sung-Phil Kim, Justin C Sanchez, Deniz Erdogmus, Yadunandana N Rao, Johan Wessberg, Jose C Principe, Miguel Nicolelis
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society - 2003 -
Proprioceptive feedback is reduced during adaptation to a visuomotor transformation: preliminary
findings.
K E Jones, Johan Wessberg, Åke Vallbo
Neuroreport - 2001 -
Directional tuning of human forearm muscle afferents during voluntary wrist
movements.
K E Jones, Johan Wessberg, Åke Vallbo
The Journal of physiology - 2001 -
Cortical ensemble activity increasingly predicts behaviour outcomes during learning of a motor
task.
M Laubach, Johan Wessberg, M A Nicolelis
Nature - 2000 -
Real-time prediction of hand trajectory by ensembles of cortical neurons in
primates.
Johan Wessberg, C R Stambaugh, J D Kralik, P D Beck, M Laubach, J K Chapin, J Kim, S J Biggs, M A Srinivasan, M A Nicolelis
Nature - 2000 -
Tactile directional sensibility: peripheral neural mechanisms in
man.
Håkan Olausson, Johan Wessberg, Naoyuki Kakuda
Brain research - 2000 -
Common modulation of motor unit pairs during slow wrist movement in
man.
Naoyuki Kakuda, Masanori Nagaoka, Johan Wessberg
The Journal of physiology - 1999 -
Single motor unit activity in relation to pulsatile motor output in human finger
movements.
Johan Wessberg, Naoyuki Kakuda
The Journal of physiology - 1999 -
Unmyelinated afferents constitute a second system coding tactile stimuli of the human hairy
skin.
Åke Vallbo, Håkan Olausson, Johan Wessberg
Journal of neurophysiology - 1999 -
Our second touch system: Receptive field properties of unmyelinated tactile afferents in
man.
Katarina Wiklund Fernström, Johan Wessberg, Håkan Olausson, Åke Vallbo
Acta physiologica Scandinavica - 1999 -
Is human muscle spindle afference dependent on perceived size of error in visual
tracking?
Naoyuki Kakuda, Johan Wessberg, Åke Vallbo
Experimental brain research. Experimentelle Hirnforschung. Expérimentation cérébrale - 1997 -
Pulsatile motor output in human finger movements is not dependent on the stretch
reflex.
Johan Wessberg, Åke Vallbo
The Journal of physiology - 1996