People's awareness of tactile stimuli has been investigated in far less detail than their
awareness of stimuli in other sensory modalities. In an attempt to fill this gap, we provide an …

To respond to a touch, it is often necessary to localize it in space, and not just on the skin.
The computation of this external spatial location involves the integration of somatosensation …

The mindless act of swatting a mosquito on the hand poses a remarkable challenge for the
brain. Given that the primary somatosensory cortex maps skin location independently of arm …

Little is known about the neuronal mechanisms underlying the temporal ordering of tactile
signals. We examined the brain regions involved in judgments of the temporal order of …

Touch is bound to the skin–that is, to the boundaries of the body. Yet, the activity of neurons
in primary somatosensory cortex just mirrors the spatial distribution of the sensors across the …

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 …

We report a series of three experiments designed to examine the effect of posture on tactile
temporal processing. Observers reported which of two tactile stimuli, presented to the left …

Remapping tactile events from skin to external space is an essential process for human
behaviour. It allows us to refer tactile sensations to their actual externally based location, by …

Altered multisensory integration has been reported in autism; however, little is known
concerning how the autistic brain processes spatio-temporal information concerning tactile …

Several authors have proposed that perceptual information carries labels that identify
temporal features, including time of occurrence, ordinal temporal relations, and brief …