Humans make various kinds of decisions about which emotions they perceive from others.
Although it might seem like a split‐second phenomenon, deliberating over which emotions …

Background and objective The temporal aspect of somesthesia is a feature of any
somatosensory process and a pre-requisite for the elaboration of proper behavior. Time …

Current deep learning approaches have shown good in-distribution generalization
performance, but struggle with out-of-distribution generalization. This is especially true in the …

Proprioception, the sense of body position, movement, and associated forces, remains
poorly understood, despite its critical role in movement. Most studies of area 2, a …

Optimism bias, ie expecting the future to hold more desirable than undesirable outcomes,
also extends to people that we like or admire. However, it remains unknown how the brain …

Obese people׳ s distortions in visually-based mental body-parts representations have been
reported in previous studies, but other sensory modalities have largely been neglected. In …

Background The present study examines the relationship between obesity, executive
functions, and body image in a nonclinical population from southern Italy. Methods General …

Skillful object lifting relies on scaling fingertip forces according to the object's weight. When
no visual cues about weight are available, force planning relies on previous lifting …

We investigated whether the relative position of objects and the body would influence haptic
recognition. People felt objects on the right or left side of their body midline, using their right …

Objective Conscious perception of our own body, also known as body image, can influence
body-scaled actions. Certain conditions such as obesity are frequently accompanied by a …