Tactile and Sensory Interactions

Enhanced pitch perception in early blind individuals and musicians is due to reduced internal noise

The paper shows early blind individuals and musicians have enhanced pitch perception due to reduced internal noise, not narrower frequency tuning.

Seeing touch enhances the perception and processing of digitized gentle stroking

This study shows that observing touch affects the perception and processing of digitally rendered touch patterns, with visual inputs enhancing pleasantness and continuity ratings of stroking over tapping.

Ipsilateral somatosensory cortex contains task-relevant tactile representations despite contralateral activation dominance

This study shows that ipsilateral somatosensory cortex contributes to tactile discrimination despite overall suppression during unilateral stimulation, challenging the dominance of contralateral activation.

Waveform-dependent mechanical signatures shape human vibrotactile perception

This study shows that the perceived intensity of vibrotactile stimuli is strongly influenced by vibration waveform, frequency, and amplitude, with square waves being perceived as more intense and perceived intensity peaking around 150 Hz.

Disruption in Patterning in the Whisker-to-Barrel Cortex Pathway Alters Behavior

This study examines how disruption of somatotopic patterning in the whisker-to-barrel pathway affects behavior in mice, finding that BRL mice can discriminate textures while Prrxl1-/- mice cannot, with both showing increased anxiety.

Movement sonification during haptic exploration shifts emotional outcome without altering texture perception

The paper investigates how movement sonification during haptic exploration affects emotional perception without altering texture appraisal, showing changes in cortical excitability.

The Proximity Prediction Hypothesis: How predictive coding of CT-touch explains Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response and its therapeutic applications.

The paper introduces the Proximity Prediction Hypothesis to explain ASMR's neural mechanisms and therapeutic benefits through predictive coding of CT-touch.

Association between Cortical Thickness and Functional Response to Linguistic Processing in the Occipital Cortex of Early Blind Individuals

This study finds a significant association between cortical thickness in occipital regions and functional activation during linguistic processing in early blind individuals.

Orofacial movements: Individuality and stereotypy when mice move a single whisker to touch

This study investigates how mice control individual whisker movements and facial coordination during a whisking-to-touch task, revealing stereotyped patterns and fine motor control.

3-D Reconstruction of Fingertip Deformation during Contact Initiation

This paper develops a 3-D DIC setup to study fingertip deformation during contact initiation, revealing rapid skin deformation and friction's role in partial slip.

Early emergence for thermal processing in the neonatal somatosensory cortex and its perturbation in ASD

The paper shows that cool thermal processing emerges in the neonatal somatosensory cortex and is disrupted in a mouse model of autism.

Repetitive Somatosensory Stimulation Shrinks The Body Image

This study shows that repetitive somatosensory stimulation reduces perceived finger size but does not affect body model or superficial schema.

Investigating the effect of mechanical adaptation on mid-air ultrasound vibrotactile stimuli

This study investigates how mechanical adaptation affects the perception of mid-air ultrasound vibrotactile stimuli, finding frequency-specific impairments in detection thresholds.

Characteristics of vicarious touch reports in a general population

This study investigates vicarious touch experiences in undergraduates, finding high prevalence, gender differences, and strong correlations with video emotional content and arousal.

The Effects of Vibrotactile Stimulation of the Upper Extremity on Sensation and Perception

This study examines how vibrotactile stimulation affects sensation and perception in the upper extremity, finding voltage correlates with intensity but not pleasantness, and location and movement impact perception.

Continuous vibration-driven virtual tactile motion perception across fingertips

This study investigates whether phase differences between continuous amplitude-modulated vibrations can induce perceived motion across fingertips, finding that motion direction is reliably perceived up to 1Hz with performance dependent on phase lag.

Discrete and sequential critical periods organise the development of task-specific sensorimotor circuits in mice

The paper identifies sequential critical periods in mouse somatosensory circuit development that shape task-specific sensorimotor behaviours through experience-dependent perturbations.

Inside Out: Functional Flexibility in Assigning the Body's inside-outside

The paper shows tactile surface perception is not fixed but dynamically adjusted based on functional demands and visual experience.

Optimizing Electrotactile Stimulation Parameters for Responses Under Cognitive Load

This study investigates how electrotactile stimulation parameters affect response speed and accuracy under cognitive load, finding faster responses to electrotactile stimuli and the need for larger intensity shifts for accuracy.

Neural representation of nouns and verbs in congenitally blind and sighted individuals

The paper investigates how congenitally blind and sighted individuals process nouns and verbs using fMRI, finding that the blind visual cortex, specifically V5/MT, responds to concrete nouns and verbs based on their physical properties.

Stable Cortical Body Maps Before and After Arm Amputation

This study shows that cortical representations of hand and lips remain stable before and after arm amputation, contradicting previous claims of large-scale reorganization.

Temporal constraints of conscious tactile perception in the primary somatosensory cortex

This study investigates the role of the primary somatosensory cortex in conscious tactile detection using spTMS and finds that early S1 stimulation reduces tactile sensitivity, suggesting a temporally limited role in perception.

Tactile responses in the mouse perirhinal cortex show invariance to physical features of the stimulus

The paper shows that perirhinal cortex (PER) in mice encodes tactile stimuli in an invariant format, unlike earlier somatosensory areas that retain feature-specific information.

Visual and auditory object representations in ventral visual cortex after restoring sight in humans

This study investigates whether visual category-selectivity in VOTC emerges after sight restoration in congenitally blind humans, finding reduced face-selectivity and a double dissociation between visual and auditory decoding in VOTC.

Gray matter abnormalities in sight deprivation and sight restoration

This study examines gray matter changes in congenitally blind individuals before and after sight restoration surgery, finding no post-surgery changes but suggesting white matter alterations as potential biomarkers of plasticity.

Tactile Pressure Evokes a Biphasic BOLD Response in Ipsilateral Primary Somatosensory Cortex

This study examines the BOLD response in ipsilateral primary somatosensory cortex to tactile stimuli, finding biphasic responses in BA1 and BA3b with the secondary phase being more sensitive to stimulus force.

Can we tell where our bodies end and the world begins? Evidence for precise three dimensional internal body models

The paper assesses how accurately people perceive their body boundaries using a psychophysical task and 3D scans, revealing high precision but systematic biases in certain regions.

Modulation of tactile sensitivity in the lower limbs during goal-directed movements

The paper investigates how tactile sensitivity in lower limbs changes during goal-directed kicking movements, finding distinct modulation patterns in balancing and kicking feet.

A tactile discrimination task to study neuronal dynamics in freely-moving mice

This paper introduces a tactile discrimination task for freely moving mice, combining electrophysiology and calcium imaging to study neuronal dynamics during learning and behavior.

Intermingled representation of oral cavity in mouse trigeminal ganglion

The paper investigates the spatial organization of sensory neurons in the mouse trigeminal ganglion and finds that oral cavity representations are intermingled rather than mapped.