In this review, we examine how tactile misperceptions provide evidence regarding body
representations. First, we propose that tactile detection and localization are serial processes …

Visual and somatosensory signals participate together in providing an estimate of the hand's
spatial location. While the ability of subjects to identify the spatial location of their hand …

Patients with lesions of the left posterior parietal cortex commonly fail in identifying their
fingers, a condition known as finger agnosia, yet are relatively unimpaired in sensation and …

Several forms of somatosensation require that afferent signals be informed by stored
representations of body size and shape. Recent results have revealed that position sense …

The study of somatosensory plasticity offers unique insights into the neuronal mechanisms
that underlie human adaptive and maladaptive plasticity. So far, little attention has been paid …

A growing literature shows that body posture modulates the perception of touch, as well as
somatosensory processing more widely. In this study, I investigated the effects of changes in …

Two-point discrimination threshold is commonly used for assessing tactile spatial resolution.
Since the effect of temporal features of cutaneous test stimulation on spatial discrimination …

Touch location can be specified in different anatomical and external reference frames.
Temporal order judgments (TOJs) in touch are known to be sensitive to conflict between …

In selection tasks where target stimuli are accompanied by distractors, responses to target
stimuli, target stimuli and the distractor stimuli can be encoded together as one episode in …

Although behavioral evidence has shown that postural changes influence the ability to
localize or detect tactile stimuli, little is known regarding the brain areas that modulate these …