Evidence suggests that tactile sensitivity may differ between women with sexual arousal difficulties and women with normal sexual functioning. Tactile sensitivity was examined on the distal portion of the dominant hand index finger and on the lower lip in women with female sexual arousal disorder (FSAD) (n = 17) and in normally functioning women (n = 17). The two groups did not differ significa...

Synchronized neuronal ring has been reported in many neural systems and may play a role in the representation of sensory stimuli and the modi cation of sensory representations by both experience and attention. In this report we describe a bootstrap procedure for computing the statistical signi cance of changes in the degree of synchrony and apply it to recordings from the second somatosensory (...

Background: In Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the premature infant is often placed under incubator, phototherapy and with several cords and tubing connected all over body. They are subjected both to highly stressful environment (noise, bright light, frequent care related handling) and are often deprived of tactile stimulation that they would otherwise experience in general mothering care....

Tactile maps and diagrams have been available in some form for centuries, and now have increasing significance in the lives of blind and visually impaired people for education, work and leisure, as graphical information becomes ever more prevalent and central in our daily experience. Methods for the production of tactile materials continue to be devised, and a range of materials and processes i...

Navigation systems are in common use by drivers and typically present information using either audio or visual representations. However, there are many pressures on the driver's cognitive systems in a car and navigational systems can add to this complexity. In this paper, we present two studies which investigated how vibro-tactile representations of navigational information, might be presented ...

Recent studies have revealed that noxious visceral inputs travel in the dorsal column pathway, and interactions between colorectal noxious and tactile inputs occur in the ventrobasal thalamus. This investigation was to test whether the somatovisceral interactions also take place in the dorsal column nuclei (DCN). Forty-five single DCN neurons of anesthetized rats responsive to colorectal disten...

We present and evaluate the concept of FeelMusic an implementation it. It is augmentation music through haptic translation core musical elements. Music touch are intrinsic modes affective communication that physically sensed. By projecting features such as rhythm melody into domain, we can explore enrich this embodied sensation; hence, investigated audio-tactile mappings successfully render emo...

The observation of touch can be grounded in the activation of brain areas underpinning direct tactile experience, namely the somatosensory cortices. What is the behavioral impact of such a mirror sensory activity on visual perception? To address this issue, we investigated the causal interplay between observed and felt touch in right brain-damaged patients, as a function of their underlying dam...