Selected publications
- Johnson KO. Reconstruction of population response to a vibratory stimulus in quickly adapting mechanoreceptive afferent fiber population innervating glabrous skin of the monkey. J Neurophysiol 1974; 37: 48–72
- Johnson KO, Darian-Smith I, LaMotte CC, Johnson B, Oldfield SR. Coding of incremental changes in skin temperature by a population of warm fibers in the monkey: Correlation with intensity discrimination in man. J Neurophysiol 1979; 42: 1332–1353
- Johnson KO. Sensory discrimination: Decision process. J Neurophysiol 1980a; 43: 1771–1792
- Johnson KO. Sensory discrimination: Neural processes preceding discrimination decision. J Neurophysiol 1980b; 43: 1793–1815
- Phillips JR, Johnson KO. Tactile spatial resolution: I. Two-point discrimination, gap detection, grating resolution, and letter recognition. J Neurophysiol 1981a; 46: 1177–1191
- Phillips JR, Johnson KO. Tactile spatial resolution: II. Neural representation of bars, edges, and gratings in monkey primary afferents. J Neurophysiol 1981b; 46: 1192–1203
- Phillips JR, Johnson KO. Tactile spatial resolution: III. A continuum mechanics model of skin predicting mechanoreceptor responses to bars, edges, and gratings. J Neurophysiol 1981c; 46: 1204–1225
- Phillips JR, Johnson KO, Hsiao SS. Spatial pattern representation and transformation in monkey somatosensory cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1988; 85: 1317–1321
- Bankman IN, Johnson KO, Hsiao SS. Neural image transformation in the somatosensory system of the monkey: Comparison of neurophysiological observations with responses in a neural network model. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 1990; 55: 611–620
- Connor CE, Hsiao SS, Phillips JR, Johnson KO. Tactile roughness: Neural codes that account for psychophysical magnitude estimates. J Neurosci 1990; 10: 3823–3836
- Vega-Bermudez F, Johnson KO, Hsiao SS. Human tactile pattern recognition: Active versus passive touch, velocity effects, and patterns of confusion. J Neurophysiol 1991; 65: 531–546
- Hsiao SS, O'Shaughnessy DM, Johnson KO. Effects of selective attention of spatial form processing in monkey primary and secondary somatosensory cortex. J Neurophysiol 1993; 70: 444–447
- DiCarlo JJ, Johnson KO, Hsiao SS. Structure of receptive fields in area 3b of primary somatosensory cortex in the alert monkey. J Neurosci 1998; 18: 2626–2645
- DiCarlo JJ, Johnson KO. Velocity invariance of receptive field structure in somatosensory cortical area 3b of the alert monkey. J Neurosci 1999; 19: 401–419
- DiCarlo JJ, Johnson KO. Spatial and temporal structure of receptive fields in primate somatosensory area 3b: Effects of stimulus scanning direction and orientation. J Neurosci 2000; 20: 495–510
- Steinmetz PN, Roy A, Fitzgerald PJ, Hsiao SS, Johnson KO, Niebur E. Attention modulates synchronized neuronal firing in primate somatosensory cortex. Nature 2000; 404: 187–190
- Johnson KO. The roles and functions of cutaneous mechanoreceptors. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2001; 11: 455–461
- Johnson KO, Hsiao SS, Yoshioka T. Neural coding and the basic law of psychophysics. Neuroscientist 2002; 8: 111–121