Empathy is an essential component of our social lives, allowing us to understand and share
other people's affective and sensory states, including pain. Evidence suggests a core neural …

The functional topography of the human primary somatosensory cortex hand area is a
widely studied model system to understand sensory organization and plasticity. It is so far …

The documentation of performance during functional imaging represents a standard
procedure employed to control for compliance, sensorimotor, and cognitive demands. In the …

Background Paralysis and neuropathy, affecting millions of people worldwide, can be
accompanied by significant loss of somatosensation. With tactile sensation being central to …

Topographic maps are a fundamental feature of cortex architecture in the mammalian brain.
One common theory is that the de-differentiation of topographic maps links to impairments in …

Intracortical mapping in monkeys revealed a full body map in all four cytoarchitectonic
subdivisions of the contralateral primary somatosensory cortex (S1), as well as positive …

With the advent of ultra-high field (7T), high spatial resolution functional MRI (fMRI) has
allowed the differentiation of the cortical representations of each of the digits at an individual …

The tactile digit representations in the primary somatosensory cortex have so far been
mapped for either the left or the right hand. This study localized all ten digit representations …

Somatotopy is an important guiding principle for sensory fiber organization in the primary
somatosensory cortex (S1), which reflects tactile information processing and is associated …

Background There is a need for devices that allow reproducible stimulation of skin areas of
humans for investigating somatosensory mapping of the whole‐body surface. However, their …