Recent studies have shown that the feeling of body ownership can be fooled by simple visuo-tactile manipulations. Perceptual illusions have been reported in which participants sense phantom touch seen on a rubber hand (rubber hand illusion). While previous studies used homologous limbs for those experiments, we here examined an illusion where people feel phantom touch on a left rubber hand when...

Sensory systems can adapt to different environmental signals. Here we identify four conditions that modulate anterior touch sensitivity in Caenorhabditis elegans after several hours and demonstrate that such sensory modulation is integrated at multiple levels to produce a single output. Prolonged vibration involving integrin signaling directly sensitizes the touch receptor neurons (TRNs). In co...

Experimental manipulations of body ownership have indicated that multisensory integration is central to forming bodily self-representation. Voluntary self-touch is a unique multisensory situation involving corresponding motor, tactile and proprioceptive signals. Yet, even though self-touch is frequent in everyday life, its contribution to the formation of body ownership is not well understood. ...

As the largest organ in the human body, the skin provides the important sensory channel for humans to receive external stimulations based on touch. By the information perceived through touch, people can feel and guess the properties of objects, like weight, temperature, textures, and motion, etc. In fact, those properties are nerve stimuli to our brain received by different kinds of receptors i...

Touch sensing interfaces are used in many human to machine applications with the natural feeling to the touch missing. We propose the use of humantenna touch technique to turn surfaces of natural or arti cial conductive or semi-conductive materials into passive touch pads. Because of the conductivity of the human body, AC power lines induce a voltage on the human body which is used as the touch...

We present a method for tracking and distinguishing multiple C. elegans in a video sequence, including when they are in physical contact with one another. The worms are modeled with an articulated model composed of rectangular blocks, arranged in a deformable configuration represented by a spring-like connection between adjacent parts. Dynamic programming is applied to reduce the computational ...

We present a method for tracking and distinguishing multiple C. elegans in a video sequence, including when they are in physical contact with one another. The worms are modeled with an articulated model composed of rectangular blocks, arranged in a deformable configuration represented by a spring-like connection between adjacent parts. Dynamic programming is applied to reduce the computational ...

In the present paper, we simulate the differentiation of sensoryand motor-like interfaces, and their dynamics in an agent of novel architecture. This paper reconsiders the boundary between an agent and its environment. In the standard framework, we tend to assume that the physical boundary between the agent and its environment exists due to the independent physical devices of its sensory and mo...

Philosophical considerations regarding experiential spatial content have focused on exteroceptive sensations presenting external entities, and not interoceptive experiences that present states of our own body. A notable example is studies touch, in which it argued tactile rich such are experienced as located a field. This article investigates whether similarly can be attributed to acute, cutane...