Tactile and Sensory Interactions

Changes of sensory and emotional tactile dimensions with age in self-touch via the application of creams

The paper investigates age-related changes in sensory and emotional tactile perceptions of self-touch with creams, finding differences in intensity and emotional associations between young and older adults.

Retinotopic remapping of the visual system in deaf adults

This study finds that deaf adults show retinotopic remapping in the visual system, with increased peripheral and reduced central visual field representations in the lateral geniculate nucleus and primary visual cortex.

Neural Changes in Processing Visuo-Tactile Looming Stimuli Following Hand-to-Foot Sensorimotor Remapping

This study investigates how sensorimotor remapping training affects neural responses to visuo-tactile stimuli, finding that synchronous training enhances P300 responses to hand stimulation but not foot stimulation.

Fingertip-Surface Interfacial Shear Stress Varies with Sliding Conditions and Electrostatic Actuation

The paper measures how interfacial shear stress changes with sliding conditions and electrostatic actuation on a touchscreen, showing its systematic variation.

Neural coding for tactile motion: Scanning speed or temporal frequency?

This study investigates how tactile motion speed is encoded in macaque S1 areas using rate and temporal codes, finding that rate codes differentiate speed and direction while temporal codes represent temporal frequency.

Synchrony within Aβ mechanoreceptor subtypes governs signal propagation to primary somatosensory cortex

The paper investigates how synchrony in Aβ mechanoreceptor subtypes affects signal propagation to primary somatosory cortex, finding that synchronous activation of SAI-LTMRs is critical for sustained cortical responses, while RAI-LTMRs produce robust responses regardless of synchrony.

A Stickiness Response System in Rats

This study identifies a fast-onset, body-part-specific stickiness response system in rats, driven by forepaw skin afferents and involving specific behaviors and neural responses.

Physics-Informed Estimation of Electrostatic Attraction During Fingertip Sliding Under Varying Speed and Normal Force

The paper estimates electrostatic attraction during fingertip sliding on a touchscreen by measuring contact area and impedance under varying normal force and speed.

The crossmodal congruency task as a measure of intuitiveness of sensory feedback in the lower limb

The study tests if a crossmodal congruency task can measure the intuitiveness of sensory feedback in lower limb prostheses, finding it effective at the knee but not the foot.

Mapping of individual somatosensory representations - comparison of fMRI and TMS

The paper compares somatosensory representations determined by fMRI and nTMS in 17 subjects, finding significant variability and differences in localization between the two methods.

Differential modulation of temporal precision and perceived timing by tactile spatial and temporal context

The paper investigates how tactile spatial and temporal context affect temporal precision and perceived timing of tactile landmarks using an auditory-referenced temporal order judgment task.

Fingertip real contact area scales quadratically with input voltage in electrostatic actuation

This study measures how real contact area and forces change with voltage in electrostatic actuation, finding a quadratic relationship between voltage and contact area.

Lexical and Semantic Coding in the Occipital Cortex of Sighted and Blind

This study uses MEG to investigate how early visual cortex supports lexical and semantic processing in sighted and blind individuals, finding task-specific decoding differences in occipital areas.

Revisiting face-to-hand area remapping in the human primary somatosensory cortex after a cervical spinal cord injury

This study investigates face-to-hand area remapping in human cervical SCI patients and finds no significant evidence of such remapping in fMRI experiments.

Motor prediction reduces beta-band power and enhances cerebellar-somatosensory connectivity before self-touch to enable its attenuation

The paper shows that motor prediction reduces beta-band power and increases cerebellar-somatosensory connectivity before self-touch, enabling its sensory attenuation.

Adaptation in somatosensory afferents improves rate and temporal coding of vibrotactile stimulus features

The paper shows adaptation in somatosensory afferents improves rate and temporal coding of vibrotactile stimulus features by modulating spiking in different ways.

From Head to Toe: Efficient Somatosensory Mapping with Fast Stimulation and Multivariate Pattern Analysis

This study compares fast and slow somatosensory stimulation protocols using EEG and MVPA, finding that faster protocols reduce testing time without sacrificing interpretability and provide complementary insights into somatosensory mapping.

Modeling human echolocation using a Kalman filter

This paper models human echolocation using a Kalman filter to simulate how blind individuals use echo feedback to estimate target location and adjust movements.

Perceptual, metacognitive, and computational signatures of temporal landmark uncertainty in tactile motion perception

The paper investigates the computational structure of internal uncertainty in tactile motion perception and identifies two distinct uncertainty components that explain perceptual and behavioural responses.

Spatial localisation of touch on a robotic limb in the absence of direct haptic feedback

This study shows that indirect tactile signals from a robotic thumb can be discriminated and used to spatially localise touch, even without direct haptic feedback.

Complex three-dimensional rearing environments amplify compensatory plasticity following early blindness

This study shows that enriched rearing environments enhance neural plasticity in the somatosensory cortex of early blind animals, leading to more adaptive behavioral and receptive field changes compared to standard rearing.

Insect-inspired, efficient event-based classification of tactile features

The paper develops a neuromechanical framework inspired by cockroach antennae to model tactile perception, showing how sparse, event-based spike codes enable efficient tactile feature classification.

Independent history traces for distinct percepts derived from a single stimulus

The paper shows that perceptual history affects judgments of different stimulus features independently, using a computational model to explain feature-specific serial dependence.

Interaction forces reflect the perception of texture during active exploration

The paper shows humans adjust touch strategies based on perceptual goals, with different physical signals supporting texture perception.

Early sensory deprivation drives local reorganization of sensory integration within a conserved global hierarchy

This study shows early sensory deprivation causes localized reorganization near deprived primary sensory areas while preserving the overall cortical hierarchy.

Sensorimotor dynamics of target acquisition and homing in human echolocation

The paper studies how blind echolocation users use click-based sensory feedback to orient toward targets, finding that target size and click intensity influence orientation accuracy and speed.

Movement planning predictions shape somatosensory sensitivity

The paper shows that tactile sensitivity decreases during planned movements but not during withheld movements, suggesting predictive mechanisms shape somatosensory processing.

Effects of prediction and attention on tactile precision in somatosensory gating

The paper investigates how spatial attention affects tactile precision during active and passive movements, finding that active movements rely on predictions for precision while passive movements require attention to movement goals.

Volitional hand activation intensifies cortical proprioceptive processing in the primary sensorimotor cortex

The paper shows that active finger movements enhance proprioceptive processing in the primary sensorimotor cortex compared to passive movements.

Deafness and sign language experience shift visual category representations

The paper shows that sign language experience alters visual category representations in the brain, with distinct changes in deaf signers versus hearing signers who learned sign language later in life.