The processing of touch depends of multiple factors, such as the properties of the skin and
type of receptors stimulated, as well as features related to the actual configuration and …

Perception involves motor control of sensory organs. However, the dynamics underlying
emergence of perception from motor-sensory interactions are not yet known. Two extreme …

Tactile localization entails the transformation of the initial skin-based location into an
external reference frame that accounts for body posture and subsequent flexible integration …

To some extent the bodies of others and one's own body are represented differently in the
human brain. This study investigates how these different body representations are used …

In a series of experimental investigations of a subject with a unilateral impairment of tactile
object recognition without impaired tactile sensation, several issues were addressed. First, is …

Prior studies have shown that tactile perception recruits activity not only in somatosensory
but also in visual cortical areas. The present study used functional magnetic resonance …

Both tactile distance perception and position sense are believed to require that immediate
afferent signals be referenced to a stored representation of body size and shape (the body …

The manipulation of objects commonly involves motion between object and skin. In this
review, we discuss the neural basis of tactile motion perception and its similarities with its …

Identifying the spatial location of touch on the skin surface is a fundamental function of our
somatosensory system. Despite the fact that stimulation of even single mechanoreceptive …

To perceive the location of a tactile stimulus in external space (external tactile localisation),
information about the location of the stimulus on the skin surface (tactile localisation on the …