Touch is the first of our senses to develop, providing us with the sensory scaffold on which
we come to perceive our own bodies and our sense of self. Touch also provides us with …

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 …

To respond to a touch, it is often necessary to localize it in space, and not just on the skin.
The computation of this external spatial location involves the integration of somatosensation …

The extent to which a tool is an extension of its user is a question that has fascinated writers
and philosophers for centuries [1]. Despite two decades of research [2–7], it remains …

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 …

When we sense a touch, our brains take account of our current limb position to determine
the location of that touch in external space [1, 2]. Here we show that changes in the way the …

An intriguing question in neuroscience concerns how somatosensory events on the skin are
represented in the human brain. Since Head and Holmes'[1] neuropsychological …

To act upon a tactile stimulus its original skin-based, anatomical spatial code has to be
transformed into an external, posture-dependent reference frame, a process known as tactile …

Maintaining equilibrium is basically a sensorimotor integration task. The central nervous
system (CNS) continually and selectively weights and rapidly integrates sensory inputs from …

Representing the locations of tactile stimulation can involve somatotopic reference frames in
which locations are defined relative to a position on the skin surface, and also external …