Following amputation, most amputees still report feeling the missing limb and often describe
these feelings as excruciatingly painful. Phantom limb sensations (PLS) are useful while …

Almost everyone who has a limb amputated will experience a phantom limb--the vivid
impression that the limb is not only still present, but in some cases, painful. There is now a …

Prior to the twentieth century, theories of knowledge were inherently perceptual. Since then,
developments in logic, statistics, and programming languages have inspired amodal …

Injuries to the peripheral nerves result in partial or total loss of motor, sensory and autonomic
functions conveyed by the lesioned nerves to the denervated segments of the body, due to …

Chronic pain after surgery is now a well-recognized phenomenon and there are several
review articles dealing with the subject in general. 1, 2, 3, 4 There is also a wealth of …

Various defenses of amodal symbol systems are addressed, including amodal symbols in
sensory-motor areas, the causal theory of concepts, supramodal concepts, latent semantic …

The aim of this paper is to provide information about the neurophysiologic model of tinnitus
and Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT). With this overview of the model and therapy …

Motor practice may lead to expansion of trained representations in the motor cortex, but it is
unknown whether this practice-dependent plasticity can be purposefully enhanced or …

Existing prosthetic limbs do not provide amputees with cutaneous feedback. Tactile
feedback is essential to intuitive control of a prosthetic limb and it is now clear that the sense …

Synesthesia is a condition in which stimulation of one sensory modality causes unusual
experiences in a second, unstimulated modality. Although long treated as a curiosity, recent …