Our brain has developed a specific system to represent the space closely surrounding the
body, termed peripersonal space (PPS). This space has a key functional role as it is where …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

Despite 2 centuries of research, the question of whether attending to a sensory modality
speeds the perception of stimuli in that modality has yet to be resolved. The authors highlight …

Interaction with objects in the environment typically requires integrating information
concerning the object location with the position and size of body parts. The former …

Over the last decades, scientists have questioned the origin of the exquisite human mastery
of tools. Seminal studies in monkeys, healthy participants and brain-damaged patients have …

Background We physically interact with external stimuli when they occur within a limited
space immediately surrounding the body, ie, Peripersonal Space (PPS). In the primate brain …

Bodily self-consciousness (BSC) refers to experience of one's self as located within an
owned body (self-identification) and as occupying a specific location in space (self-location) …

Macaque neurophysiology and human neuropsychology results suggest that parietal cortex
encodes a unique representation of space within reach of the arm. Here, we used slow …

This review discusses how visual and the tactile signals are combined in the brain to ensure
appropriate interactions with the space around the body. Visual and tactile signals converge …

The space immediately surrounding the body, ie peripersonal space (PPS), is represented
by populations of multisensory neurons, from a network of premotor and parietal areas …