Whereas functional localization historically has been a key concept in neuroscience, direct
neuronal recordings show that input of a particular modality can be recorded well outside its …

Investigations of the mechanisms of touch perception and decoding has been hampered by
difficulties in achieving invariant patterns of skin sensor activation. To obtain reproducible …

Whereas, there is data to support that cuneothalamic projections predominantly reach a
topographically confined volume of the rat thalamus, the ventroposterior lateral (VPL) …

The presence of contralateral tactile input can profoundly affect ipsilateral tactile perception,
and unilateral stroke in somatosensory areas can result in bilateral tactile deficits …

To understand how sensory-driven neural activity gives rise to perception, it is essential to
characterize how various relay stations in the brain encode stimulus presence. Neurons in …

For neurons of the primary somatosensory cortex, the anatomy of the thalamocortical
connections supports a digit-wise specialization, whereas the intracortical connections …

We used simultaneous multi-site neural ensemble recordings to investigate the
representation of tactile information in three areas of the primate somatosensory cortex …

The brain has a never-ending internal activity, whose spatiotemporal evolution interacts with
external inputs to constrain their impact on brain activity and thereby how we perceive them …

The neural processes underlying tactile decisions in the human brain remain elusive. We
addressed this question in a functional magnetic resonance imaging study using a …

Haptic sensing of objects acquires information about a number of properties. This review
summarizes current understanding about how these properties are processed in the …