In congenital handlessness, where individuals rely on their feet for compensatory manual functions, reorganization in the primary somatosensory cor...

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How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions into its somatosensory representations? Prior work shows that the body and technology are represented simultaneously, but little is known about ...

Mirror-invariance is the cognitive tendency to perceive mirror-image objects as identical. Mirrored letters, however, are distinct orthographic units, and must be identified as different; mirror-invar...

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How are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a...

There is contradictory evidence on the effect that visual experience has on haptic abilities. Indeed, some studies have documented that a lack of vision (blindness) results in decreased haptic percept...

How does the brain integrate artificial body extensions into its somatosensory representation? While prior work has shown that tool use alters body representation, little is known about how artificial...

Speech is a multisensory signal that can be extracted from the voice and the lips. Previous studies suggested that occipital and temporal regions encode both auditory and visual speech features but th...

By studying never-before-seen details of brain connectivity in human infants, researchers at the Wu Tsai

The cortex is organized along macroscale structural and functional gradients that extend from unimodal to transmodal association areas and from somatosensory to visual regions. It has not been tested ...

The cortex is organized along macroscale structural and functional gradients that extend from unimodal to transmodal association areas and from somatosensory to visual regions. It has not been tested ...

Sensory substitution devices (SSDs) convert images to sounds to equip blind individuals with nominally visual functions, like face or letter sensitivity. Prior studies showed that image-to-sound SSDs ...

Contier et al. show that dimensions are superior to categories at predicting brain responses to visual objects.

Chang et al. report that during imagery attempts, those with validated aphantasia have decreased perceptual BOLD response and higher ipsilateral imagery response. Imagery content could be decoded using activation patterns in the primary visual cortex, but these patterns differed from perception patterns.

Scientific Reports - Mirror-invariance is not exclusively visual but extends to touch

Human ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOTC) contains specialized regions that support visual recognition of behaviorally relevant categories, including faces, written language and places. An open que...

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Most of us effortlessly describe visual objects, whether seen or remembered. Yet, around 4% of people report congenital aphantasia: they struggle to visualize objects despite being able to describe th...