The discovery of mirror neurons in motor areas of the brain has led many to assume that our
ability to understand other people's behaviour partially relies on vicarious activations of …

In general, social neuroscience research tends to focus on visual and auditory channels as
routes for social information. However, because the skin is the site of events and processes …

In hypnotic responding, expectancies arising from imaginative suggestion drive striking
experiential changes (eg, hallucinations)—which are experienced as involuntary …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

Normal perception involves experiencing objects within perceptual scenes as real, as
existing in the world. This property of “perceptual presence” has motivated “sensorimotor …

Completely revised and updated, this book focuses on sensory perceptual problems as
identified by individuals on the autism spectrum. Despite frequently being identified by …

Although synesthesia has been known about for 200 years, it is only in the past decade or
so that substantial progress has been made in studying it empirically and in understanding …

A little over a decade ago, Martino and Marks (Current Directions in Psychological Science
10: 61–65, 2001) put forward the influential claim that cases of intuitive matchings between …

We review the evidence that an ability to achieve a precise balance between representing
the self and representing other people is crucial in social interaction. This ability is required …

Xenomelia is the oppressive feeling that one or more limbs of one's body do not belong to
one's self. We present the results of a thorough examination of the characteristics of the …