Blindness has always fascinated artists, 23, 25, 33, 34, 37, 74, 75 philosophers 5, 13, 15
(Fig. 1), and also scientists. 2, 6–8, 39, 50, 52, 54, 57, 59 Blindness is defined as visual …

Wide-range thermoreceptive neurons (WRT-EN) in monkey cortical area 7b that encoded
innocuous and nocuous cutaneous thermal and threatening visuosensory stimulation with …

Examining the mechanisms underlying crossmodal interaction between nociceptive and
visual stimuli is crucial to understand how humans handle potential bodily threats in their …

High frequency electrical conditioning stimulation (HFS) is an experimental method to
induce increased mechanical pinprick sensitivity in the unconditioned surrounding skin …

To protect our body against physical threats, it is important to integrate the somatic and extra-
somatic inputs generated by these stimuli. Temporal synchrony is an important parameter …

Nociception, the physiological mechanisms specifically processing information about
noxious and potentially painful stimuli, has the double function to warn about potential body …

Spatial locations of somatosensory stimuli are coded according to somatotopic (anatomical
distribution of the sensory receptors on the skin surface) and spatiotopic (position of the …

Adequately localizing pain is crucial to protect the body against physical damage and react
to the stimulus in external space having caused such damage. Accordingly, it is …

Localizing pain is crucial because it allows for detecting which part of the body is being hurt
and identifying in its surrounding which stimulus is producing the damage. Nociceptive …

This manuscript summarizes my previous work in cognitive neuroscience and delineates the
short-term steps and the global vision for my future research interests. The overarching goal …