[HTML][HTML] Brain (re) organisation following amputation: Implications for phantom limb pain

TR Makin, H Flor - Neuroimage, 2020 - Elsevier
Following arm amputation the region that represented the missing hand in primary
somatosensory cortex (S1) becomes deprived of its primary input, resulting in changed …

Parcellating cerebral cortex: how invasive animal studies inform noninvasive mapmaking in humans

DC Van Essen, MF Glasser - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
The cerebral cortex in mammals contains a mosaic of cortical areas that differ in function,
architecture, connectivity, and/or topographic organization. A combination of local …

Motor planning brings human primary somatosensory cortex into action-specific preparatory states

G Ariani, JA Pruszynski, J Diedrichsen - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Motor planning plays a critical role in producing fast and accurate movement. Yet, the neural
processes that occur in human primary motor and somatosensory cortex during planning …

Obtaining and maintaining cortical hand representation as evidenced from acquired and congenital handlessness

DB Wesselink, FMZ van den Heiligenberg, N Ejaz… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
A key question in neuroscience is how cortical organisation relates to experience.
Previously we showed that amputees experiencing highly vivid phantom sensations …

The somatotopy of mental tactile imagery

TT Schmidt, F Blankenburg - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
To what degree mental imagery (MI) bears on the same neuronal processes as perception
has been a central question in the neurophysiological study of imagery. Sensory-recruitment …

[HTML][HTML] New acquisition techniques and their prospects for the achievable resolution of fMRI

S Bollmann, M Barth - Progress in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
This work reviews recent advances in technologies for functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) of the human brain and highlights the push for higher functional specificity …

Finger somatotopy is preserved after tetraplegia but deteriorates over time

S Kikkert, D Pfyffer, M Verling, P Freund, N Wenderoth - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Previous studies showed reorganised and/or altered activity in the primary sensorimotor
cortex after a spinal cord injury (SCI), suggested to reflect abnormal processing. However …

[HTML][HTML] Bayesian population receptive field modeling in human somatosensory cortex

AM Puckett, S Bollmann, K Junday, M Barth… - Neuroimage, 2020 - Elsevier
Somatosensation is fundamental to our ability to sense our body and interact with the world.
Our body is continuously sampling the environment using a variety of receptors tuned to …

[HTML][HTML] Organized toe maps in extreme foot users

H Dempsey-Jones, DB Wesselink, J Friedman… - Cell reports, 2019 - cell.com
Although the fine-grained features of topographic maps in the somatosensory cortex can be
shaped by everyday experience, it is unknown whether behavior can support the expression …

Are neuronal mechanisms of attention universal across human sensory and motor brain maps?

EA DeYoe, W Huddleston, AS Greenberg - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2024 - Springer
One's experience of shifting attention from the color to the smell to the act of picking a flower
seems like a unitary process applied, at will, to one modality after another. Yet, the unique …