Dr Ingvars Birznieks
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Book Chapters
Redmond SJ; Birznieks I; Lovell NH; Goodwin AW, 2010, 'Classifying torque, normal force and direction using monkey afferent nerve spike rates', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), edn. PART 1, pp. 43 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14064-8_7
Birznieks I, 2010, 'Neuroprosthesis - theory and praxis', in Gedrovics J; Raipulis J (ed.), Special honorary collection of articles: Scientiae et adulescentiae/For science and youth, edn. 1, RTTEMA, Riga, pp. 60 - 68
Journal articles
Steel KA; Mudie K; Sandoval R; Anderson D; Dogramaci S; Rehmanjan M; Birznieks I, 2017, 'Can Video Self-Modeling Improve Affected Limb Reach and Grasp Ability in Stroke Patients?', Journal of Motor Behavior, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222895.2017.1306480
Birznieks I; Vickery RM, 2017, 'Spike Timing Matters in Novel Neuronal Code Involved in Vibrotactile Frequency Perception', Current Biology, vol. 27, pp. 1485 - 1490.e2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.011
Day J; Bent LR; Birznieks I; Macefield VG; Cresswell AG, 2017, 'Muscle spindles in human tibialis anterior encode muscle fascicle length changes', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 117, pp. 1489 - 1498, http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00374.2016
Birznieks I; Gerling GJ; Sergi F; Bensmaia SJ, 2016, 'Haptics in Neuroscience', IEEE Transactions on Haptics, vol. 9, pp. 443 - 445, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TOH.2016.2627738
McIntyre S; Birznieks I; Vickery RM; Holcombe AO; Seizova-Cajic T, 2016, 'The tactile motion aftereffect suggests an intensive code for speed in neurons sensitive to both speed and direction of motion', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 115, pp. 1703 - 1712, http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00460.2015
Kasi P; Wright J; Khamis H; Birznieks I; Van Schaik A, 2016, 'The Bayesian decoding of force stimuli from slowly adapting type I fibers in humans', PLoS ONE, vol. 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153366
Hudson KM; Condon M; Ackerley R; McGlone F; Olausson H; Macefield VG; Birznieks I, 2015, 'Effects of changing skin mechanics on the differential sensitivity to surface compliance by tactile afferents in the human finger pad', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 114, pp. 2249 - 2257, http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00176.2014
Nagi SS; Dunn JS; Birznieks I; Vickery RM; Mahns DA, 2015, 'The effects of preferential A- and C-fibre blocks and T-type calcium channel antagonist on detection of low-force monofilaments in healthy human participants', BMC Neuroscience, vol. 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12868-015-0190-2
Khamis H; Birznieks I; Redmond SJ, 2015, 'Decoding tactile afferent activity to obtain an estimate of instantaneous force and torque applied to the fingerpad', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 114, pp. 474 - 484, http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00040.2015
Birznieks I; Logina I; Wasner G, 2015, 'Somatotopic mismatch of hand representation following stroke: is recovery possible?', Neurocase, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2015.1046886
Arabzadeh E; Clifford CWG; Harris JA; Mahns DA; Macefield VG; Birznieks I, 2014, 'Single tactile afferents outperform human subjects in a vibrotactile intensity discrimination task', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 112, pp. 2382 - 2387, http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00482.2014
Condon M; Birznieks I; Hudson K; Chelvanayagam DK; Mahns D; Olausson H; Macefield VG, 2014, 'Differential sensitivity to surface compliance by tactile afferents in the human finger pad', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 111, pp. 1308 - 1317, http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00589.2013
Fazalbhoy A; Birznieks I; Macefield VG, 2014, 'Consistent interindividual increases or decreases in muscle sympathetic nerve activity during experimental muscle pain', Experimental Brain Research, vol. 232, pp. 1309 - 1315, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-014-3847-7
Fazalbhoy A; Macefield VG; Birznieks I, 2013, 'Tonic muscle pain does not increase fusimotor drive to human leg muscles: Implications for chronic muscle pain', Experimental Physiology, vol. 98, pp. 1125 - 1132, http://dx.doi.org/10.1113/expphysiol.2012.071670
Hall SC; Fazalbhoy A; Birznieks I; MacEfield VG, 2012, 'Biphasic effects of tonic stimulation of muscle nociceptors on skin sympathetic nerve activity in human subjects', Experimental Brain Research, vol. 221, pp. 107 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-012-3156-y
McIntyre S; Holcombe AO; Birznieks I; Seizova-Cajic T, 2012, 'Tactile Motion Adaptation Reduces Perceived Speed but Shows No Evidence of Direction Sensitivity', PLoS ONE, vol. 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045438
Fazalbhoy A; Birznieks I; Macefield VG, 2012, 'Individual differences in the cardiovascular responses to tonic muscle pain: Parallel increases or decreases in muscle sympathetic nerve activity, blood pressure and heart rate', Experimental Physiology, vol. 97, pp. 1084 - 1092, http://dx.doi.org/10.1113/expphysiol.2012.066191
Birznieks I; Logina I; Wasner G, 2012, 'Somatotopic mismatch following stroke: a pathophysiological condition escaping detection.', BMJ case reports, vol. 2012
Birznieks I; Logina I; Wasner G, 2012, 'Somatotopic mismatch following stroke: A pathophysiological condition escaping detection', BMJ Case Reports, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2012-006304
Birznieks I; Boonstra TW; Macefield VG, 2012, 'Modulation of human muscle spindle discharge by arterial pulsations - functional effects and consequences', PLoS ONE, vol. 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035091
Chan GSH; Fazalbhoy A; Birznieks I; Macefield VG; Middleton PM; Lovell NH, 2012, 'Spontaneous fluctuations in the peripheral photoplethysmographic waveform: Roles of arterial pressure and muscle sympathetic nerve activity', American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, vol. 302, http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.00970.2011
Birznieks I; Wheat HE; Redmond SJ; Salo LM; Lovell NH; Goodwin AW, 2010, 'Encoding of tangential torque in responses of tactile afferent fibres innervating the fingerpad of the monkey', Journal of Physiology, vol. 588, pp. 1057 - 1072, http://dx.doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.2009.185314
Burton AR; Birznieks I; Bolton PS; Henderson LA; Macefield VG, 2009, 'Effects of deep and superficial experimentally induced acute pain on muscle sympathetic nerve activity in human subjects', Journal of Physiology, vol. 587, pp. 183 - 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.2008.162230
Burton AR; Birznieks I; Spaak J; Henderson LA; MacEfield VG, 2009, 'Effects of deep and superficial experimentally induced acute pain on skin sympathetic nerve activity in human subjects', Experimental Brain Research, vol. 195, pp. 317 - 324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-009-1790-9
Birznieks I; Macefield VG; Westling G; Johansson RS, 2009, 'Slowly adapting mechanoreceptors in the borders of the human fingernail encode fingertip forces', Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 29, pp. 9370 - 9379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0143-09.2009
Birznieks I; Burton AR; Macefield VG, 2008, 'The effects of experimental muscle and skin pain on the static stretch sensitivity of human muscle spindles in relaxed leg muscles', Journal of Physiology, vol. 586, pp. 2713 - 2723, http://dx.doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.2008.151746
Johansson RS; Birznieks I, 2004, 'First spikes in ensembles of human tactile afferents code complex spatial fingertip events', Nature Neuroscience, vol. 7, pp. 170 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn1177
Jenmalm P; Birznieks I; Goodwin AW; Johansson RS, 2003, 'Influence of object shape on responses of human tactile afferents under conditions characteristic of manipulation', European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 18, pp. 164 - 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02721.x
Birznieks I; Jenmalm P; Goodwin AW; Johansson RS, 2001, 'Encoding of direction of fingertip forces by human tactile afferents', Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 21, pp. 8222 - 8237
Birznieks I; Burstedt MKO; Edin BB; Johansson RS, 1998, 'Mechanisms for force adjustments to unpredictable frictional changes at individual digits during two-fingered manipulation', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 80, pp. 1989 - 2002
Burstedt GKO; Birznieks I; Edin BB; Johansson RS, 1997, 'Control of forces applied by individual fingers engaged in restraint of an active object', Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 78, pp. 117 - 128
Conference Papers
McIntyre S; Birznieks I; Andersson R; Dicander G; Breen PP; Vickery RM, 2016, 'Temporal integration of tactile inputs from multiple sites', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 204 - 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42321-0_19
Khamis H; Redmond SJ; Tripodi R; Linarts A; Zavickis J; Knite M; Birznieks I, 2016, 'Design principles for building a soft, compliant, high spatial resolution tactile sensor array', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 25 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42324-1_3
Kasi P; Birznieks I; Van Schaik A, 2015, 'A point process approach to encode tactile afferents', in International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER, pp. 328 - 331, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NER.2015.7146626
Khamis HA; Redmond SJ; Macefield VG; Birznieks I, 2014, 'Tactile afferents encode grip safety before slip for different frictions', in Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, pp. 4123 - 4126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944531
Khamis H; Redmond S; Macefield V; Birznieks I, 2014, 'Classification of Texture and Frictional Condition at Initial Contact by Tactile Afferent Responses', in Auvray M; Duriez C (eds.), Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 460 - 468, presented at Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications 2014, 01 - 01 January 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44193-0_58
Seizova-Cajic T; Karlsson K; Bergstrom S; McIntyre S; Birznieks I, 2014, 'Lateral skin stretch influences direction judgments of motion across the skin', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), pp. 425 - 431, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44193-0_53
McIntyre S; Seizova-Cajic T; Birznieks I; Holcombe AO; Vickery RM, 2014, 'Adaptation to motion presented with a tactile array.', in Auvray M; Duriez C (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications, Springer, Versailles, pp. 351 - 359, presented at Eurohaptics, Versailles, 24 - 26 June 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44193-0_44
Rager DM; Alvares D; Birznieks I; Redmond SJ; Morley JW; Lovell NH; Vickery RM, 2013, 'Generating tactile afferent stimulation patterns for slip and touch feedback in neural prosthetics', in Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, pp. 5922 - 5925, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610900
Fu J; Birznieks I; Goodwin AW; Khamis H; Redmond SJ, 2012, 'Decoding tactile sensation: Multiple regression analysis of monkey fingertip afferent mechanoreceptor population responses', in Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, pp. 4631 - 4634, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346999
Redmond SJ; Goodwin AW; Lovell NH; Birznieks I, 2010, 'A comparison of monkey afferent nerve spike rates and spike latencies for classifying torque, normal force and direction', in APSIPA ASC 2010 - Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, pp. 720 - 724
Birznieks I; Boonstra TW; Macefield VG, 2010, 'Physiological noise in the firing of human muscle spindle afferents', in Small D (ed.), Australian Neurosciences Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2010, ANS, Sydney, pp. 172 - 172, presented at Australian Neurosciences Society Annual Scientific Meeting 2010, Sydney, 31 January - 03 February 2010
Burton AR; Birznieks I; Macefield VG, 2008, 'Regional skin temperature as an indicator of underlying muscle perfusion', in Proceedings of Aust Neuroscience Society, Australian Neuroscience Society 28th Annual Meeting, Hobart, pp. 52 - 52, presented at Australian Neuroscience Society 28th Annual Meeting, Hobart, 27 - 30 January 2008
Birznieks I; Westling G; Johansson RS; Macefield VG, 2008, 'Directional tuning of slowly-adating mechanoreceptors in the human nail bed', in Proceedings of Aust Neuroscience Society, Australian Neuroscience Society 28th Annual Meeting, Hobart, pp. 30 - 30, presented at Australian Neuroscience Society 28th Annual Meeting, Hobart, 27 - 30 January 2008
Burton AR; Birznieks I; Macefield VG, 2006, 'Comparison of the sympathetic neural responses to pain originating in muscle skin in awake human subjects', in Proceedings of Aust Neuroscience Society, 26th Annual meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society, Sydney, pp. 48 - 48, presented at 26th Annual meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society, Sydney, 31 January - 03 February 2006
Conference Abstracts
Vickery R; Rodrigues B; Dahlman S; Schramko L; Morley J; Redmond S; Birznieks I, 2015, 'Non-invasive tactile feedback from artificial sensors using a biomimetic code', in JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY, WILEY-BLACKWELL, Cairns, AUSTRALIA, Vol. 134, pp. 377 - 377, presented at 25th Biennial Meeting of the International-Society-for-Neurochemistry Jointly with the 13th Meeting of the Asian-Pacific-Society-for-Neurochemistry in Conjunction with the 35th Meeting of the Australa, Cairns, AUSTRALIA, 23 - 27 August 2015, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000360206300969&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a
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