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Tactile corpuscle

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Somatosensory-visual effects in visual biological motion perception

Olaf Blanke, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Wenwen Chang

Social cognition is dependent on the ability to extract information from human stimuli. Of those, patterns of biological motion (BM) and in particular walking patterns of other humans, are prime examples. Although most often tested in isolation, BM outside ...

2020

Anatomically and functionally distinct thalamocortical inputs to primary and secondary mouse whisker somatosensory cortices

Carl Petersen, Georgios Foustoukos, Berat Semihcan Sermet, Sami El-Boustani

Subdivisions of mouse whisker somatosensory thalamus project to cortex in a region-specific and layer-specific manner. However, a clear anatomical dissection of these pathways and their functional properties during whisker sensation is lacking. Here, we us ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Biomimetic Intraneural Sensory Feedback Enhances Sensation Naturalness, Tactile Sensitivity, and Manual Dexterity in a Bidirectional Prosthesis

Silvestro Micera, Giulio Rognini, Ivo Strauss, Giacomo Valle, Francesco Maria Petrini, Edoardo D'Anna

Peripheral intraneural stimulation can provide tactile information to amputees. However, efforts are still necessary to identify encoding strategy eliciting percepts that are felt as both natural and effective for prosthesis control. Here we compared the n ...

2018

Improving the control of prosthetic hands with tactile sensing

Sylvain Calinon, Noémie Laure Gwendoline Jaquier

Despite recent advances in prostheses, intuitive and robust control of poly-articulated prosthetic hands remains an unsolved problem. The TACT-HAND project aims at providing hand amputees with improved dexterous capabilities by exploiting tactile sensing a ...

2018

Peripersonal Space: An Index of Multisensory Body–Environment Interactions in Real, Virtual, and Mixed Realities

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Andrea Serino, Fosco Bernasconi, Javier Bello Ruiz, Elisa Canzoneri, Robin Mange

Human–environment interactions normally occur in the physical milieu and thus by medium of the body and within the space immediately adjacent to and surrounding the body, the peripersonal space (PPS). However, human interactions increasingly occur with or ...

2018

Unconscious integration of multisensory bodily inputs in the peripersonal space shapes bodily self-consciousness

Olaf Blanke, Andrea Serino, Nathan Quentin Faivre, Roy Salomon

Recent studies have highlighted the role of multisensory integration as a key mechanism of self-consciousness. In particular, integration of bodily signals within the peripersonal space (PPS) underlies the experience of the self in a body we own (self-iden ...

Elsevier2017

Multisensory effects on somatosensation: a trimodal visuo-vestibular-tactile interaction

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Mariia Kaliuzhna

Vestibular information about self-motion is combined with other sensory signals. Previous research described both visuo-vestibular and vestibular-tactile bilateral interactions, but the simultaneous interaction between all three sensory modalities has not ...

Nature Research2016

Soft Pneumatic Actuator Skin with Piezoelectric Sensors for Vibrotactile Feedback

Jamie Paik, Harshal Arun Sonar

The latest wearable technologies demand more intuitive and sophisticated interfaces for communication, sensing, and feedback closer to the body. Evidently, such interfaces require flexibility and conformity without losing their functionality even on rigid ...

Frontiers Media Sa2016

Dexterous grasping under shape uncertainty

Aude Billard, Miao Li

An important challenge in robotics is to achieve robust performance in object grasping and manipulation, dealing with noise and uncertainty. This paper presents an approach for addressing the performance of dexterous grasping under shape uncertainty. In ou ...

Elsevier2016

Full body action remapping of peripersonal space: The case of walking

Olaf Blanke, Hervé Lissek, Andrea Serino, Patrick Marmaroli, Petr Grivaz

The space immediately surrounding the body, i.e. peripersonal space (PPS), is represented by populations of multisensory neurons, from a network of premotor and parietal areas, which integrate tactile stimuli from the body’s surface with visual or auditory ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

A flexible multimodal tactile display for delivering shape and material information

Hannes Bleuler, Simon Gallo

The growing complexity of telemanipulation tasks calls for increased realism and intuitiveness of the interaction between the user and the master control. Humans perceive multiple haptic features of an object such as its stiffness, temperature, and shape, ...

Elsevier2015

Crossing the hands increases illusory self-touch

Olaf Blanke, Giulio Rognini, Roy Salomon, Polona Pozeg

Manipulation of hand posture, such as crossing the hands, has been frequently used to study how the body and its immediately surrounding space are represented in the brain. Abundant data show that crossed arms posture impairs remapping of tactile stimuli f ...

Public Library of Science2014

Combining proprioception and touch to compute spatial information

Elisa Canzoneri

Localising a tactile stimulus in egocentric space involves integrating information from skin receptors with proprioceptive inputs about body posture. We investigated whether body posture automatically influences tactile spatial judgements, even when it is ...

Springer2014

Learning of Grasp Adaptation through Experience and Tactile Sensing

Aude Billard, Miao Li

To perform robust grasping, a multi-fingered robotic hand should be able to adapt its grasping configuration, i.e., how the object is grasped, to maintain the stability of the grasp. Such a change of grasp configuration is called grasp adaptation and it de ...

2014

Multisensory Origin of the Subjective First-Person Perspective: Visual, Tactile, and Vestibular Mechanisms

Olaf Blanke, Roberto Martuzzi, Christian Pfeiffer, Valentin Marc Schmutz, Julio Duenas

In three experiments we investigated the effects of visuo-tactile and visuo-vestibular conflict about the direction of gravity on three aspects of bodily self-consciousness: self-identification, self-location, and the experienced direction of the first-per ...

Public Library of Science2013

Expanding the primate body schema in sensorimotor cortex by virtual touches of an avatar

Hannes Bleuler, Solaiman Shokur, Miguel Nicolelis

The brain representation of the body, called the body schema, is susceptible to plasticity. For instance, subjects experiencing a rubber hand illusion develop a sense of ownership of a mannequin hand when they view it being touched while tactile stimuli ar ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

Visuo-tactile integration and body ownership during self-generated action

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Roy Salomon, Giulio Rognini, Jane Aspell, Ali Sengül

Although there is increasing knowledge about how visual and tactile cues from the hands are integrated, little is known about how self-generated hand movements affect such multisensory integration. Visuo-tactile integration often occurs under highly dynami ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Extending the body to virtual tools using a robotic surgical interface: evidence from the crossmodal congruency task

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Giulio Rognini, Jane Aspell, Michiel van Elk, Ali Sengül

The effects of real-world tool use on body or space representations are relatively well established in cognitive neuroscience. Several studies have shown, for example, that active tool use results in a facilitated integration of multisensory information in ...

Public Library of Science2012

Leg muscle vibration modulates bodily self-consciousness: integration of proprioceptive, visual, and tactile signals

Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Estelle Palluel

Behavioral studies have used visuo-tactile conflicts between a participant's body and a visually presented fake or virtual body to investigate the importance of bodily perception for self-consciousness (bodily self-consciousness). Illusory self-identificat ...

2011

Seeing the body modulates audiotactile integration

Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell

Audiotactile integration has been studied using various experimental setups but so far crossmodal congruency effects (CCEs) have not been found for tactile targets paired with auditory distractors. In the present study we investigated whether audiotactile ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010