ArticleScientific reports2015
Enhanced tactile acuity through mental states.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Aberrant occlusal sensitivity in adults with increased somatosensory amplification: a case-control study.Clinical oral investigations · 2024Article
- Three Sliding Probes Placed on Forelimb Skin for Proprioceptive Feedback Differentially yet Complementarily Contribute to Hand Gesture Detection and Object-Size Discrimination.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2024Article
- The neural networks of touch observation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Apparent increase in lip size influences two-point discrimination.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Of Orchids and Dandelions: Empathy but Not Sensory Processing Sensitivity Is Associated with Tactile Discrimination Abilities.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Dispositional empathy predicts primary somatosensory cortex activity while receiving touch by a hand.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Optical palpation for tumor margin assessment in breast-conserving surgery.Biomedical optics express · 2021Article
- Feeling Touched: Empathy Is Associated With Performance in a Tactile Acuity Task.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- The influence of vision on tactile Hebbian learning.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
Bodily training typically evokes behavioral and perceptual gains, enforcing neuroplastic processes and affecting neural representations. We investigated the effect on somatosensory perception of a three-day Zen meditation exercise, a purely mental intervention. Tactile spatial discrimination of the right index finger was persistently improved by only 6 hours of mental-sensory focusing on this finger, suggesting that intrinsic brain activity created by mental states can alter perception and behavior similarly to external stimulation.
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