Cited by 212Tactile and Sensory InteractionsEmbodied and Extended CognitionMultisensory perception and integration

Touch and the body

Serino, Andrea, Haggard, Patrick·2010·Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Abstract

The dual nature of touch has long been understood. The sense of touch seems to carry information at the same time about the external object touching our skin, and also about our body itself. However, how these two interact has remained obscure. We present an analytic model of how tactile information interacts with mental body representations in the brain. Four such interactions are described: the link between the body surface and the maps in primary somatosensory cortex, the contribution of somatosensory cortical information to mental body representations, the feedback pathway from such higher representations back to primary tactile processing in somatosensory cortex, and the modulation of tactile object perception by mental body representations.

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Authors
Serino, A., & Haggard, P.
Affiliations
  • University of Bologna (IT)
  • University College London (GB)
Corresponding author
Haggard, Patrick
Venue
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2010-02
Volume
34
Issue
2
Pages
224-236
ISSN
0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2029480316
Cited by
212
References
141
Citations by year
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0.75
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
Keywords
touch, somatosensory cortex, representation of the body, primary somatosensory cortex, feedback pathways
MeSH terms
Afferent Pathways, Body Image, Humans, Models, Neurological, Models, Psychological, Neural Pathways, Touch, Touch Perception

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