Tactile localization entails the transformation of the initial skin-based location into an
external reference frame that accounts for body posture and subsequent flexible integration …

According to current textbook knowledge, the primary somatosensory cortex (SI) supports
unilateral tactile representations, whereas structures beyond SI, in particular the secondary …

Cutaneous sensation is vital to controlling our hands and upper limbs. It helps close the
motor control loop by informing adjustments of grasping forces during object manipulations …

The processing of touch depends of multiple factors, such as the properties of the skin and
type of receptors stimulated, as well as features related to the actual configuration and …

This paper reviews proposals that conscious perception consists, in whole or part, of
successive discrete temporal frames on the sub-second time scale, each frame containing …

Touch is bound to the skin–that is, to the boundaries of the body. Yet, the activity of neurons
in primary somatosensory cortex just mirrors the spatial distribution of the sensors across the …

The world of perception is multisensory. Even a simple task such as judging the position of a
light in a dark room depends not only on vision but also on sensory signals about the …

Arriving in the outside world, the newborn infant has to determine how the tactile stimulation
experienced in utero relates to the spatial environment newly offered up by vision, hearing …

Congenitally blind infants are not only deprived of visual input but also of visual influences
on the intact senses. The important role that vision plays in the early development of …

Where we perceive a touch putatively depends on topographic maps that code the touch's
location on the skin [1] as well as its position in external space [2–5]. However, neither …