Blindness has always fascinated artists, 23, 25, 33, 34, 37, 74, 75 philosophers 5, 13, 15
(Fig. 1), and also scientists. 2, 6–8, 39, 50, 52, 54, 57, 59 Blindness is defined as visual …

Wide-range thermoreceptive neurons (WRT-EN) in monkey cortical area 7b that encoded
innocuous and nocuous cutaneous thermal and threatening visuosensory stimulation with …

Examining the mechanisms underlying crossmodal interaction between nociceptive and
visual stimuli is crucial to understand how humans handle potential bodily threats in their …

The cutaneous silent period (CSP) to noxious finger stimulation constitutes a robust spinal
inhibitory reflex that protects the hand from injury. In certain conditions, spinal inhibition is …

High frequency electrical conditioning stimulation (HFS) is an experimental method to
induce increased mechanical pinprick sensitivity in the unconditioned surrounding skin …

Multisensory interactions between pain and vision allow us to adapt our behavior to optimize
detection and reaction against bodily threats. Interactions between different sensory inputs …

To protect our body against physical threats, it is important to integrate the somatic and extra-
somatic inputs generated by these stimuli. Temporal synchrony is an important parameter …

Nociception, the physiological mechanisms specifically processing information about
noxious and potentially painful stimuli, has the double function to warn about potential body …

Spatial locations of somatosensory stimuli are coded according to somatotopic (anatomical
distribution of the sensory receptors on the skin surface) and spatiotopic (position of the …

Adequately localizing pain is crucial to protect the body against physical damage and react
to the stimulus in external space having caused such damage. Accordingly, it is …