Biography:Yngve Zotterman
Yngve Zotterman (20 September 1898 in Vadstena – 13 March 1982 in Stockholm)Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag In later years he worked at the Wenner-Gren Center in Stockholm and helped organise international symposia on olfaction and taste.[1]
He conducted pioneering studies on nerve conduction together with Edgar Adrian.[2] He then worked on sensory function of skin, particularly related to pain, heat and the neurochemistry of taste buds.[3]
He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1949, and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1953.
Research
Working with Edgar Adrian at Cambridge in the 1920s, Zotterman helped to demonstrate that individual sensory nerve fibres encode stimulus intensity through changes in firing rate, work that became a classic in sensory physiology.[2]
See also
- Rate coding
References
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedGranit1982 - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Garson, Justin (March 2015). "The Birth of Information in the Brain: Edgar Adrian and the Vacuum Tube" (in en). Science in Context 28 (1): 31–52. doi:10.1017/S0269889714000313. ISSN 0269-8897. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0269889714000313/type/journal_article.
- ↑ Zotterman, Yngve (1969). Touch, Tickle and Pain, Part I. Pergamon Press.
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