Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Ken Wu
Summary: In the NICU, medical demands disrupt the fundamental parent-child relationship, forcing parents and babies to maintain a certain distance from each other.
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yuka Okada, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Hiroshi Nittono, Masahiro Shiomi
Summary: This study investigated the impact of a presenter's touching behaviors during an explanation on an observer's perceived feelings of "kawaii" (cute) towards both the object and the presenter. Face-to-face experiments with a robot presenter and web survey experiments with both robot and human presenters were conducted. The results showed that observing touch behaviors increased the perceived cuteness of the object for both the robot and human presenters. These findings suggest that observing others' touching behaviors influences the emotional perception of both presenters and objects.
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Behavioral Sciences
Marie Chancel, H. Henrik Ehrsson
Summary: This article investigates the multisensory perception of body ownership and explores the mechanisms underlying the emergence of body ownership illusions such as the visuotactile rubber hand illusion using Bayesian causal inference models. The study finds that proprioception and its relative reliability influence this inferential process and verifies this hypothesis through a rubber hand illusion experiment. The results demonstrate that proprioceptive uncertainty shapes multisensory perception. These findings offer important insights into our understanding of the formation of body ownership.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Arran T. Reader, Victoria S. Trifonova, H. Henrik Ehrsson
Summary: The study found that in the rubber hand illusion, participants who reported feeling ownership also tended to report touch referral, showing a moderately strong positive relationship between the two. Touch referral was often reported more strongly and frequently than ownership, indicating implications for the experimental paradigm.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Manasi Wali, Trevor Lee-Miller, Reshma Babu, Hannah J. Block
Summary: The brain estimates hand position by combining visual and proprioceptive cues, and spatial mismatches between these cues elicit recalibration. It is unclear how long this recalibration is retained. This study investigates whether direct vision and/or active movement of the hand can undo visuo-proprioceptive recalibration, and whether recalibration is still evident 24 hours later.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Sinem Balta Beylergil, Angela M. Noecker, Mikkel Petersen, Palak Gupta, Sarah Ozinga, Mark F. Walker, Camilla Kilbane, Cameron C. McIntyre, Aasef G. Shaikh
Summary: The study revealed that patients with Parkinson's disease showed lower accuracy in vestibular perception compared to healthy controls, but significant improvement was observed after deep brain stimulation treatment. However, there were no significant differences in visual heading perception between patients and controls.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Daniela Balslev, Alexandra G. Mitchell, Patrick J. M. Faria, Lukasz Priba, Jennifer A. Macfarlane
Summary: The study confirmed the contribution of proprioception in human ocular alignment through fMRI and eye tracking experiments.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2022)
Article
Robotics
Andre Yuji Yasutomi, Hideyuki Ichiwara, Hiroshi Ito, Hiroki Mori, Tetsuya Ogata
Summary: In this study, a vision and proprioceptive data-driven robot control model is proposed for anchor-bolt insertion tasks in challenging lighting and hole surface conditions. The model, trained offline with a sample-efficient framework, consists of a spatial attention point network and deep reinforcement learning policy. Evaluations demonstrate that the model generates relevant attention points in challenging lighting conditions and enables task execution with higher success rate and shorter completion time compared to baselines.
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Hongqiang Huo, Xiaoyu Liu, Zhixin Wu, Zhili Tang, Min Tang, Duo Chen, Ying Dong, Xiaofeng Qiao, Tao Liu, Ran An, Yubo Fan
Summary: A novel robot-assisted task was designed to assess proprioceptive acuity, showing that males had better proprioceptive acuity of the wrist than females, especially in specific motions.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Emily R. Thomas, Daniel Yon, Floris P. de Lange, Clare Press
Summary: This study found that expected tactile touch during actions can enhance perception intensity, rather than attenuate it. The results challenge a central tenet of prominent motor control theories and demonstrate that sensorimotor predictions do not have a qualitatively distinct influence on tactile perception.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Masahiro Hirai, Takeshi Sakurada, Jun Izawa, Takahiro Ikeda, Yukifumi Monden, Hideo Shimoizumi, Takanori Yamagata
Summary: This study used a novel approach to manipulate visual perspective of children with autism spectrum disorders through camera placement, finding an increased reliance on proprioception during the reaching task.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Xiaobo Liu, Xudong Han, Ning Guo, Fang Wan, Chaoyang Song
Summary: This paper proposes a soft finger method that combines inner vision with kinesthetic sensing to estimate the pose of objects held in the hand. The method achieves high accuracy in object pose estimation and classification, as demonstrated in experiments.
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Psychology
Marco Carlo Ziegler, Knut Drewing
Summary: The study tested the assumption of a shared cross-sensory system for approximate number processing in haptic and visual modalities, using a dot comparison task. Results showed responses in both modalities depended on the ratio of numbers of dots, but did not find medium or stronger positive correlations between ANS acuity in visual and haptic tasks. Additionally, spacing-related features of dot patterns contributed to numerosity perception in both modalities, indicating a modality-specific integration of number and related features.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Goncalo Fonseca, Joao Nunes-Pereira, Abilio P. Silva
Summary: This study presents a low-cost sensory glove system that enhances the functionality of a 3D-printed mechanical hand prosthesis by enabling touch detection, localization, and force measurement. The mechanical hand model was produced using 3D printing, allowing for quick and affordable production with the ability to replace individual parts easily. A complementary sensory mimicry add-on system was constructed and instrumented with piezoresistive sensors attached to the glove's palm, enabling the localization and quantification of forces exerted on the glove. This system has shown promising results and could serve as a platform for the development of a more complex and multifunctional system in the future.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sae Onishi, Kunihito Tobita, Shogo Makioka
Summary: According to embodied cognition theory, body movements are closely linked to semantic processing. This study used functional near-infrared spectroscopy to measure the effect of hand constraint on semantic processing in the parietal lobe. The results showed that hand constraint suppressed brain activity related to hand-manipulable objects and affected reaction time in a judgment task.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lucilla Cardinali, Alessandro Zanini, Russell Yanofsky, Alice C. Roy, Frederique de Vignemont, Jody C. Culham, Alessandro Farne
Summary: Research shows that people can experience an illusion that a mechanical grabber, which looks scarcely like a hand, is part of their body. This indicates that artificial objects can become embodied even though they bear little visual resemblance to the hand.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marie Martel, Livio Finos, Eric Koun, Alessandro Farne, Alice Catherine Roy
Summary: The study found that the development of tools usage follows a U-shaped trajectory during adolescence, with changes in kinematics from early to mid puberty seeming to reflect a shortened arm representation, opposite to what was previously reported in adults. This pattern starts reversing after mid puberty, with the typical adult-like pattern emerging only at late puberty.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Kasia A. Myga, Klaudia B. Ambroziak, Luigi Tame, Alessandro Farne, Matthew R. Longo
Summary: Hands play a fundamental role in everyday behavior, but healthy adults often misjudge the location of their own knuckles, perceiving them to be substantially farther forward than they actually are. This study found that there is a systematic bias in the localization of knuckles in the hand, with individuals showing similar misjudgments for both their own hand and the hand of another person. Furthermore, the research revealed a gradient of bias in the perception of finger length, with a progressive reduction of the misjudgment from proximal to distal joints.
EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Aurelie Coudert, Valerie Gaveau, Julie Gatel, Gregoire Verdelet, Romeo Salemme, Alessandro Farne, Francesco Pavani, Eric Truy
Summary: The study assessed the spatial hearing abilities in reaching space of children and adolescents with bilateral cochlear implants (BCI) and investigated the impact of spontaneous head movements on sound localization abilities. The results showed that without visual cues or spontaneous head movements, individuals with BCI had impaired localization abilities for front-back and distance discrimination.
Article
Biophysics
Silvia Turri, Mehdi Rizvi, Giuseppe Rabini, Alessandra Melonio, Rosella Gennari, Francesco Pavani
Summary: The present study investigated the effects of visual cues on speech identification in noise. The results showed that visual cues directing attention to temporal components of speech remained effective during monaural listening. These findings have important implications for improving audiovisual attention orientation in individuals with hearing loss.
MULTISENSORY RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Bia Lima Ramalho, Julien Moly, Estelle Raffin, Romain Bouet, Sylvain Harquel, Alessandro Farne, Karen T. Reilly
Summary: This study investigated sensorimotor interactions between the face and hand using an afferent inhibition transcranial magnetic stimulation protocol. The results showed that facial stimulation can inhibit hand muscle motor responses, providing the first evidence for face-to-hand afferent inhibition.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Marie Martel, Veronique Boulenger, Eric Koun, Livio Finos, Alessandro Farne, Alice Catherine Roy
Summary: Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a pathological condition characterized by impaired motor skills. This study found that DCD children exhibit changes in their body image (BI) after using tools, but do not update their implicit body schema (BS) estimates. However, DCD children perform similarly to typically developing peers in terms of the motor control of the tools, indicating preserved motor learning abilities in DCD.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Luke E. Miller, Cecile Fabio, Malika Azaroual, Dollyane Muret, Robert J. van Beers, Alessandro Farne, W. Pieter Medendorp
Summary: This study proposes that the somatosensory system may implement multilateration to decode touch location on the body by estimating the relative distance between afferent input and body part boundaries. A simple feed forward neural network was shown to be able to implement this computation, and the computational signature of multilateration was identified in psychophysical experiments.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Serena Giurgola, Chiara Crico, Alessandro Farne, Nadia Bolognini
Summary: The present study demonstrates that the ownership of a fake hand can affect the visual perception of the size of the real hand, leading to an overestimation of the size in certain cases. However, this illusory ownership does not impact the visual estimation of object size.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Gabriele Zeloni, Francesco Pavani
Summary: The study found that the minor 2nd interval appeared more frequently in cry vocalizations compared to other intervals, suggesting an association between minor intervals and sadness may develop in humans.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Monica Gori, Maria Bianca Amadeo, Francesco Pavani, Chiara Valzolgher, Claudio Campus
Summary: Our study reveals that individuals with normal hearing show a strong brain response when processing temporal information, while deaf individuals do not. This suggests that deafness can interfere with the typical development of complex visual temporal representations.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Lisa Fleury, Lea Dreyer, Rola El Makkaoui, Elise Leroy, Yves Rossetti, Christian Collet
Summary: Prism adaptation through motor imagery can lead to transferable after-effects, providing potential for further investigation into the role of cognitive aspects in sensorimotor adaptation.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Mariam Alzaher, Chiara Valzolgher, Gregoire Verdelet, Francesco Pavani, Alessandro Farne, Pascal Barone, Mathieu Marx
Summary: Unilateral hearing loss (UHL) significantly increases spatial errors in the horizontal plane due to changes in binaural cues. This study examined the effects of audiovisual spatial training on 19 UHL patients. The results showed that spatial training reduced head-pointing localization errors and improved hand-pointing errors and reaction times, suggesting the potential of virtual reality systems for training programs in patients with hearing impairments.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Meeting Abstract
Ophthalmology
Ivan Camponogara, Alessandro Farne, Robert Volcic