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 …

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

Watching a rubber hand being stroked, while one's own unseen hand is synchronously
stroked, may cause the rubber hand to be attributed to one's own body, to “feel like it's my …

Researchers have known for more than a century that crossing the hands can impair both
tactile perception [1] and the execution of appropriate finger movements [2]. Sighted people …

For more than 100 years we have known that the visual field is mapped onto the surface of
visual cortex, imposing an inherently spatial reference frame on visual information …

Across three experiments, participants made speeded elevation discrimination responses to
vibrotactile targets presented to the thumb (held in a lower position) or the index finger …

Touch differs from other exteroceptive senses in that the body itself forms part of the tactile
percept. Interactions between proprioception and touch provide a powerful way to …

Touch is the first of our senses to develop, providing us with the sensory scaffold on which
we come to perceive our own bodies and our sense of self. Touch also provides us with …

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

Observers made temporal order judgements (TOJs) regarding which of two tactile stimuli
presented to either hand (at stimulus onset asynchronies of up to 200 ms) occurred first …