The goal of the PhD thesis entails characterization of the neocortical representation of haptic input features. Sub-components for this work include exploring more naturalistic mechanical stimulators with capacity for highly dynamic modulation, followed by establishing high fidelity representations of physical skin interface under haptic interactions through high-speed imaging tools. These representations then need to be observed with population wide cortical recordings which involve exploring novel acquisition methods with high-spatial-temporal resolution. These acquired signals need to be supplemented by novel signal processing tools so ‘unmix’ the highly rich and superposed individual neuronal activities only then to be decoded with novel mathematical tools for accurate correlation of the skin-cortex relationship.