The hand endows us with unparalleled precision and versatility in our interactions with
objects, from mundane activities such as gras** to extraordinary ones such as virtuoso …

The sense of proprioception allows us to keep track of our limb posture and movements and
the sense of touch provides us with information about objects with which we come into …

The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive
science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of …

EBK: SENSATION/PERCEPTION Page 1 Page 2 E. Bruce Goldstein University of Pittsburgh
University of Arizona and Laura Cacciamani California Polytechnic State University Sensation …

Visual area V4 is a midtier cortical area in the ventral visual pathway. It is crucial for visual
object recognition and has been a focus of many studies on visual attention. However, there …

Humans perceive the world using multi-modal sensory inputs such as vision, audition, and
touch. In this work, we investigate the cross-modal connection between vision and touch …

State-of-the-art prosthetic hands nearly match the dexterity of the human hand, and
sophisticated approaches have been developed to control them intuitively. However …

A fundamental feature of first-order neurons in the tactile system is that their distal axon
branches in the skin and forms many transduction sites, yielding complex receptive fields …

Humans and other animals can identify objects by active touch, requiring the coordination of
exploratory motion and tactile sensation. Both the motor strategies and neural …

Existing psychophysical studies have revealed that the cross-modal visual-tactile perception
is common for humans performing daily activities. However, it is still challenging to build the …