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 …

Localizing touch in space is essential for goal-directed action. Because body posture
changes, the brain must transform tactile coordinates from an initial skin-based …

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 …

When locating touch, we remap its location from skin-based to external coordinates as a
function of body posture. While remapping is thought to occur whenever there is tactile input …

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 …

Different reference frames appear to be relevant for tactile spatial coding. When participants
give temporal order judgments (TOJ) of two tactile stimuli, one on each hand, performance …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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