It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

The commentaries have raised important points regarding different aspects of our model.
Some have queried the nature of the proposed dissociations, whereas others have …

Why is there so much more research on vision than on any other sensory modality? There is
a seemingly easy answer to this question: It is because vision is our most important and …

How the Body Shapes the Mind is an interdisciplinary work that addresses philosophical
questions by appealing to evidence found in experimental psychology, neuroscience …

Human Hand Function is a multidisciplinary book that reviews the sensory and motor
aspects of normal hand function from both neurophysiological and behavioral perspectives …

Developmental robotics is an emerging field located at the intersection of robotics, cognitive
science and developmental sciences. This paper elucidates the main reasons and key …

Several studies have shown that adults integrate visual and haptic information (and
information from other modalities) in a statistically optimal fashion, weighting each sense …

This book reviews the considerable body of research that has been done to evaluate the
touch skills of blind people. With an emphasis on cognitive and neuroscientific approaches …

A considerable number of cognitive processes depend on the integration of multisensory
information. The brain integrates this information, providing a complete representation of our …

Tactile memory systems are involved in the storage and retrieval of information about stimuli
that impinge on the body surface and objects that people explore haptically. Here, the …