Recent evidence suggests that primary sensory cortical regions play a role in the integration
of information from multiple sensory modalities. How primary cortical neurons integrate …

This study addresses one long-standing question of whether functional separations are
preserved for somatosensory modalities of touch, heat, and cold nociception within primate …

The brain consistently faces a challenge of whether and how to combine the available
information sources to estimate the properties of an object explored by hand. While object …

Perception of the thermal environment begins with the activation of peripheral
thermosensory neurons innervating the body surface. To understand how temperature is …

Although distinct thalamic nuclei encode sensory information for almost all sensory
modalities, the existence of a thalamic representation of temperature with a role in thermal …

Haptic displays aim at artificially creating tactile sensations by applying tactile features to the
user's skin. Although thermal perception is a haptic modality, it has received scant attention …

USING fMRI, we observed cortical activity associated with nociceptive hot and cold
sensations applied to hand and foot that are not spatially restricted to the corresponding …

The temporal pattern of action potentials can convey rich information in a variety of sensory
systems. We describe a new non-invasive technique that enables precise, reliable …

Highlights•Innocuous thermal information is a key component of haptic exploration.•Thermal
perception is immediate and robust from mouse to man.•Mouse thermosensory system is …

Whereas, there is data to support that cuneothalamic projections predominantly reach a
topographically confined volume of the rat thalamus, the ventroposterior lateral (VPL) …