For efficient navigation, the brain needs to adequately represent the environment in a
cognitive map. In this review, we sought to give an overview of literature about cognitive map …

Virtual reality (VR) has become a popular tool for investigating human behavior and brain
functions. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether VR constitutes an actual form of reality or is …

Cultural narratives on disability have received much attention over the past few decades. In
contexts of poverty, limited information and everyday challenges associated with having, or …

Theories of embodied cognition propose that perception is shaped by sensory stimuli and by
the actions of the organism. Following sensorimotor contingency theory, the mastery of …

Vision loss has severe impacts on physical, social and emotional well-being. The education
of blind children poses issues as many scholar disciplines (eg, geometry, mathematics) are …

Beta-band activity in the sensorimotor cortex is considered a potential biomarker for
evaluating motor functions. The intricate connection between the brain and muscle …

The physiological responses to human thermal stimulation have been widely investigated,
but most of them are mainly concerned about the whole body thermal stimulation. In this …

Objective: To investigate whether training with tactile matrices displayed with a
programmable tactile display improves recalling performance of spatial images in blind, low …

Grocery shopping represents a challenging task for visually impaired (VI), but the
neuroscientific literature on the consumption patterns of this group is still scarce. The aim of …

Noninvasive, objective quantitative techniques to gauge emotional states are fundamental
for clinical psychology as they overcome subjective bias of currently used questionnaires. To …