▪ Abstract The space around us is represented not once but many times in parietal cortex.
These multiple representations encode locations and objects of interest in several …

Research in neuroscience reveals that the brain constructs multiple representation of space.
Here, we primarily focus on peripersonal space (PPS) representation, the region of space …

We recorded electrical activity from 532 neurons in the rostral part of inferior area 6 (area F5)
of two macaque monkeys. Previous data had shown that neurons of this area discharge …

Concepts are the elementary units of reason and linguistic meaning. They are conventional
and relatively stable. As such, they must somehow be the result of neural activity in the brain …

First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the
cognitive sciences. It presents a model for understanding the visual processing underlying …

Emotions and actions are powerfully contagious; when we see someone laugh, cry, show
disgust, or experience pain, in some sense, we share that emotion. When we see someone …

This article addresses basic aspects of social cognition focusing on the pivotal role played
by the lived body in the constitution of our experience of others. It is suggested that before …

I report an illusion in which individuals experience that they are located outside their
physical bodies and looking at their bodies from this perspective. This demonstrates that the …

In the “rubber-hand illusion,” the sight of brushing of a rubber hand at the same time as
brushing of the person's own hidden hand is sufficient to produce a feeling of ownership of …

In the monkey brain, two interconnected cortical areas have distinctive neuronal responses
to visual, tactile, and auditory stimuli. These areas are the ventral intraparietal area (VIP) and …