Research Project
Associate Professor
Ingvars Birznieks
Current Appointments
Senior Research Scientist (Conjoint)
Associate Professor, Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Medicine & Health
Adjunct A/Prof, School of Health, Western Sydney University
Key Research Areas
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Dr Ingvars Birznieks is a sensory neurophysiologist interested in sensory information encoding mechanisms. He received his PhD training at Umeå University in Sweden and the University of Melbourne. After his postdoc studies, he was offered a position of senior research officer at NeuRA to contribute to the large scale cross-organisational project supported by Australian Government Special Research Initiative “Thinking Systems” – the project bringing together neuroscientists, biomedical engineers and roboticists. He established his own research network centred around the studies on neuronal information encoding mechanisms in the somatosensory system. His current focus is cross-disciplinary projects linking neuroscience, clinical neurology, and biomedical engineering.
Publications
2023, 31 May
How Tactile Afferents in the Human Fingerpad Encode Tangential Torques Associated with Manipulation: Are Monkeys Better than Us?
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1305-22.2023
2023, 17 May
Memory at your fingertips: how viscoelasticity affects tactile neuron signaling
View full preprint on https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.15.540820
2022, 01 Oct
Perceived tactile intensity at a fixed primary afferent spike rate varies with the temporal pattern of spikes
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00284.2022
2022, 01 Jan
Submillimeter Lateral Displacement Enables Friction Sensing and Awareness of Surface Slipperiness
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1109/TOH.2021.3139890
2022, 01 Jan
The Relationship Between Tactile Intensity Perception and Afferent Spike Count is Moderated by a Function of Frequency
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1109/TOH.2022.3140877
2021, 07 Dec
Initial contact shapes the perception of friction
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109109118
2021, 05 Nov
Movement Planning Determines Sensory Suppression: An Event-related Potential Study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01747
2021, 22 Sep
Initial contact shapes the perception of friction
View full other on https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.20.461039
2021, 01 Mar
Friction sensing mechanisms for perception and motor control: passive touch without sliding may not provide perceivable frictional information
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00504.2020
2021, 01 Feb
Burst gap code predictions for tactile frequency are valid across the range of perceived frequencies attributed to two distinct tactile channels
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00662.2020
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