ReviewCognitive neuropsychology
Towards explaining spatial touch perception: Weighted integration of multiple location codes.
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- Effect of spatial attention on anatomical and external reference frames in tactile localization.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Flexible Perception of Tactile Cues in Multiple Reference Frames.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Aligned representation of visual and tactile motion directions in hMT+/V5 and fronto-parietal regions.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Enhancing grasping ability with vibrational guidance for individuals who are blind or partially sighted.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Highly compromised auditory spatial perception in aided congenitally hearing-impaired and rapid improvement with tactile technology.iScience · 2024Article
- Encoding contact size using static and dynamic electrotactile finger stimulation: natural decoding vs. trained cues.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Brain-machine interface learning is facilitated by specific patterning of distributed cortical feedback.Science advances · 2023Article
- Dynamic spatial coding in parietal cortex mediates tactile-motor transformation.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Do motor plans affect sensorimotor state estimates during temporal decision-making with crossed vs. uncrossed hands? Failure to replicate the dynamic crossed-hand effect.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Different mechanisms of magnitude and spatial representation for tactile and auditory modalities.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Applying a novel visual-to-touch sensory substitution for studying tactile reference frames.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- What Underlies a Greater Reversal in Tactile Temporal Order Judgment When the Hands Are Crossed? A Structural MRI Study.Cerebral cortex communications · 2021Article
- Sounds are remapped across saccades.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Crossmodal learning of target-context associations: When would tactile context predict visual search?Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2020Article
- Reaching to the Self: The Development of Infants' Ability to Localize Targets on the Body.Psychological science · 2019Article
- Alpha-band oscillations reflect external spatial coding for tactile stimuli in sighted, but not in congenitally blind humans.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- More than skin-deep: Integration of skin-based and musculoskeletal reference frames in localization of touch.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2018Article
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Abstract
Touch is bound to the skin - that is, to the boundaries of the body. Yet, the activity of neurons in primary somatosensory cortex just mirrors the spatial distribution of the sensors across the skin. To determine the location of a tactile stimulus on the body, the body's spatial layout must be considered. Moreover, to relate touch to the external world, body posture has to be evaluated. In this review, we argue that posture is incorporated, by default, for any tactile stimulus. However, the relevance of the external location and, thus, its expression in behaviour, depends on various sensory and cognitive factors. Together, these factors imply that an external representation of touch dominates over the skin-based, anatomical when our focus is on the world rather than on our own body. We conclude that touch localization is a reconstructive process that is adjusted to the context while maintaining all available spatial information.
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