Format:
1 online resource (481 pages)
ISBN:
9780191501807
Content:
'In Touch With The Future' expores the latest research from cognitive neuroscience on how humans process tactile information. It reviews the scientific knowledge on themes such as tactile memory, tactile awareness, tactile attention, the role of touch in interpersonal and sexual interactions, and the neurological substrates of touch.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The world of touch -- 1.1.1 Touch makes real -- 1.2 A brief story of tactile research -- 1.3 Overview of the book -- 2 The fundamentals of touch: The organization of the somatosensory system -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Tactile receptors -- 2.3 Pathways for the conduction of tactile information to the central neural system -- 2.3.1 CT fibers: A privileged pathway to pleasant tactile sensations -- 2.3.2 Ascending neural pathways -- 2.4 Touch in the central neural system -- 2.4.1 The organization of the somatosensory cortex -- 2.4.2 Bypassing S1: A second pathway for conducting tactile information? -- 2.5 Conclusions -- 3 Tactile perceptual organization -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Perceptual completion -- 3.3 Proximity and similarity -- 3.3.1 Using apparent motion to study the effect of proximity and similarity -- 3.3.2 Does Gestalt grouping occur early or late in the processing of tactile information? -- 3.4 The principle of "emergence": Figure/ground segregation in the tactile modality -- 3.5 Common fate -- 3.6 Subitizing and grouping in touch -- 3.7 Grouping and the concept of the "tactile perceptual field" -- 3.8 Grouping in multisensory scene perception -- 3.9 Do crossmodal correspondences reflect crossmodal grouping by similarity? -- 3.10 Conclusions -- 4 The awareness of touch -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Numerosity judgments (The "how many" question) -- 4.2.1 Spatial numerosity judgments -- 4.2.2 The perception of simultaneity and temporal numerosity judgments -- 4.3 Change blindness -- 4.4 Inattentional blindness -- 4.5 Memory and consciousness: The "tactile present" -- 4.6 Consciousness of tactile stimuli: The "where" problem (body, space, or both) -- 4.6.1 Phantom sensations in amputated limbs -- 4.6.2 A rabbit on the skin: The cutaneous saltation illusion.
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Additional Edition:
9780199644469
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780199644469
Language:
English
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