ReviewFrontiers in psychology2019
A Conceptual Model of Tactile Processing across Body Features of Size, Shape, Side, and Spatial Location.
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- Body-centered encoding of passive tactile pattern memories.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Rescaling perceptual hand maps by visual-tactile recalibration.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- Tactile localization accuracy at the low back.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- The left-right reversed visual feedback of the hand affects multisensory interaction within peripersonal space.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Preserved tactile distance estimation despite body representation distortions in individuals with fibromyalgia.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Body in Neurosciences: Representation, Perception and Space Processing.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Dynamic spatial coding in parietal cortex mediates tactile-motor transformation.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Multidigit tactile perception I: motion integration benefits for tactile trajectories presented bimanually.Journal of neurophysiology · 2022Article
- Size Constancy Mechanisms: Empirical Evidence from Touch.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Body and peripersonal space representations in chronic stroke patients with upper limb motor deficits.Brain communications · 2022Article
- Affective touch in the context of development, oxytocin signaling, and autism.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Tactile distance anisotropy on the feet.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
- The development of body representations: an associative learning account.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Review
- The contribution of stimulating multiple body parts simultaneously to the illusion of owning an entire artificial body.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
The processing of touch depends of multiple factors, such as the properties of the skin and type of receptors stimulated, as well as features related to the actual configuration and shape of the body itself. A large body of research has focused on the effect that the nature of the stimuli has on tactile processing. Less research, however, has focused on features beyond the nature of the touch. In this review, we focus on some features related to the body that have been investigated for less time and in a more fragmented way. These include the symmetrical quality of the two sides of the body, the postural configuration of the body, as well as the size and shape of different body parts. We will describe what we consider three key aspects: (1) how and at which stages tactile information is integrated between different parts and sides of the body; (2) how tactile signals are integrated with online and stored postural configurations of the body, regarded as priors; (3) and how tactile signals are integrated with representations of body size and shape. Here, we describe how these different body dimensions affect integration of tactile information as well as guide motor behavior by integrating them in a single model of tactile processing. We review a wide range of neuropsychological, neuroimaging, and neurophysiological data and suggest a revised model of tactile integration on the basis of the one proposed previously by Longo et al.
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