Background: Pain and body perception are essentially two subjective mutually influencing
experiences. However, in the field of musculoskeletal disorders and rheumatic diseases we …

Here we examine how people's understanding of consciousness may have been shaped by
an implicit theory of mind. This social cognition approach may help to make sense of an …

Somatosensory tactile experience is a key aspect of our interaction with the environment. It
is involved in object manipulation, in the planning and control of actions and, in its affective …

At the sensory level we continuously receive a flow of information about our own body
through external and internal perceptions. Not only can we see our body and touch it, but we …

Body representations (BR) for action are critical to perform accurate movements. Yet,
behavioral measures suggest that BR are distorted even in healthy people. However, the …

Proprioception acquires a crucial role in estimating the configuration of our body segments
in space when visual information is not available. Proprioceptive accuracy is assessed by …

Temporal binding refers to a systemic bias in the perceived time interval between two
related events, most frequently voluntary motor actions and a subsequent sensory effect. An …

A number of studies have proposed the existence of a distorted body model of the hand.
Supporting this hypothesis, judgments of the location of hand landmarks without vision are …

In this study, we aimed to relate the findings from two predominantly separate streams of
literature, one reporting on the localization of single touches on the skin, and the other on …

Although behavioral evidence has shown that postural changes influence the ability to
localize or detect tactile stimuli, little is known regarding the brain areas that modulate these …