To control bodily movements the human brain relies on a somatosensory representation
referred to as the body schema [1]. The almost century-old hypothesis that tool-use induces …

Humans and monkeys share similar sensory integrated processing of tactile and peri-hand
visual inputs for coding peripersonal space surrounding the hand. In monkeys, tool use is …

To sensibly interact with the environment, like when grasping objects and navigating through
space, the brain needs to compute not only target- and environment-related inputs, but also …

A large proportion of right-hemisphere stroke patients show hemispatial neglect—a neurological
deficit of perception, attention, representation, and/or performing actions within their left-…

Some patients with brain damage fail to identify a sensory stimulus presented on the opposite
side to their lesion (contralesional) when a competing stimulus is presented on the same …

Current interpretations of extinction suggest that the disorder is due to an unbalanced
competition between ipsilesional and contralesional representations of space. The question …

Patients with left-sided visuospatial neglect, typically after damage to the right parietal lobe,
show a systematic bias towards larger numbers when asked to bisect a numerical interval. …

Peripersonal space processing in monkeys’ brain relies on visuo-tactile neurons activated
by objects near, not touching, the animal's skin. Multisensory interplay in peripersonal space …

The neural mechanisms underpinning visuo-manual plasticity can be viewed as a powerful
rehabilitation tool that produces straightforward effects not only on visual and motor …

Research in the last four decades has brought a considerable advance in our understanding
of how the brain synthesizes information arising from different sensory modalities. Indeed, …