Much of the visual cortex is organized into visual field maps: nearby neurons have receptive
fields at nearby locations in the image. Mammalian species generally have multiple visual …

Abstract Between 1-5: 100 people worldwide have never experienced normotypic vision due
to a condition called amblyopia, and about 1: 4000 suffer from inherited retinal dystrophies …

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 …

Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second
Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an …

Human parietal cortex is implicated in a wide variety of sensory and cognitive functions, yet
its precise organization remains unclear. Visual field maps provide a potential structural …

The bilateral anatomical organization of the vestibular system provides three functional
advantages: optimal differentiation of head motion and orientation, sensory substitution of a …

Background The loss of vision has been associated with enhanced performance in non-
visual tasks such as tactile discrimination and sound localization. Current evidence suggests …

This review summarizes our current knowledge of multisensory vestibular structures and
their functions in humans. Most of it derives from brain activation studies with PET and fMRI …

Vision is generally considered the dominant sensory modality; self-contained and
independent of other senses. In this article, we will present recent results that contradict this …

Tactile spatial acuity is enhanced in blindness, according to several studies, but the cause of
this enhancement has been controversial. Two competing hypotheses are the tactile …