The neural circuits underlying initial sensory processing of somatic information are relatively
well understood. In contrast, the processes that go beyond primary somatosensation to …

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

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

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 …

Driver inattention has been identified as one of the leading causes for car accidents. The
problem of distraction while driving is likely to worsen, partly due to increasingly complex in …

The bodily self is constructed from multisensory information. However, little is known of the
relation between multisensory development and the emerging sense of self. We investigated …

Incorporating the fact that the senses are embodied is necessary for an organism to interpret
sensory information. Before a unified perception of the world can be formed, sensory signals …

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 …

This article reviews various different approaches to the design of unimodal and multisensory
warning signals, in particular warning signals for use in alerting drivers to potentially …

We report a study designed to investigate the effectiveness of task-irrelevant unimodal and
bimodal audiotactile stimuli in capturing a person's spatial attention away from a highly …