Imaging experiments reveal that some brain regions do not distinguish between actions performed using tools and those performed using the hands, while others represent these two types of action separately.
Calogero Maria Oddo, Stanisa Raspopovic ... Silvestro Micera
Delivering specific patterns of electrical activity to the median nerve of the arm triggers reliable sensations of texture, suggesting that it may ultimately be possible to restore complex tactile information to users of prosthetic limbs.
Ali Farshchian, Alessandra Sciutti ... Ferdinando A Mussa-Ivaldi
The brain obtains and preserves a consistent temporal alignment of multisensory and motor information flowing along staggered streams by maintaining an invariant estimate across modalities of the energy exchanged with the environment at discrete events.
Single-unit recordings from cortical neurons in behaving macaque monkeys expose differential aspects of multisensory plasticity across different multisensory areas during visual–vestibular recalibration.
Animals work in a world full of surprises, where using energy to position sensors proportional to the location's expected information avoids the pitfalls of positioning them at the information maxima.
Philippa Anne Johnson, Tessel Blom ... Hinze Hogendoorn
To accurately represent object position in real time, the human visual system predictively encodes the location of moving objects, compensating for the time required for transmission and processing of information.
Viktor Nikolaus Kewenig, Gabriella Vigliocco, Jeremy I Skipper
A novel deep-learning-based computational method using object recognition to quantify visual context in naturalistic, multimodal stimuli demonstrates that a concept's perceived abstractness or concreteness dynamically depends on its visual context.
By acting as versatile signal-processors that encode flexible coordinate representations, muscle spindles challenge current widely held views concerning the role of proprioceptors and the peripheral nervous system in sensorimotor function.
Theoretical models and experimental results reveal how the optimal integration of gravity cues fine tunes movement kinematics so that motor effort is minimized in the ubiquitous gravity field.
