The “body schema,” a spatial representation of the body in its environment, has been
suggested to be an emergent property of a widespread network of effector-specific frontal …

Spatial target information for movement planning appears to be coded in a gaze-centered
reference frame. In touch, however, location is initially coded with reference to the skin …

Evidence from patients has shown that primary somatosensory representations are plastic,
dynamically changing in response to central or peripheral alterations, as well as experience …

Tactile stimulus location is automatically transformed from somatotopic into external spatial
coordinates, rendering information about the location of touch in three-dimensional space …

Reacting to a touch on the skin often requires the remapping of the initial somatotopicaly‐
based representation of the stimulus into an external frame of reference that incorporates …

To perceive the location of a tactile stimulus in external space (external tactile localisation),
information about the location of the stimulus on the skin surface (tactile localisation on the …

Orienting our gaze or attention to the location of tactile events in the skin feels natural and
effortless. However, this process requires combining somatosensory and proprioceptive …

We investigated the conditions that underlie the vertical and bisection illusion in touch, in
order to understand the basis of their similarity to visual illusions, and the means of reducing …

Tactile perception and motor production share the use of internally-and externally-defined
coordinates. In order to examine how visual experience affects the internal/external coding …

Perceiving the external spatial location of touch requires that tactile information about the
stimulus location on the skin be integrated with proprioceptive information about the location …