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When we perform an action, self-elicited movement induces suppression of somatosensory information to the cortex, requiring a correct motor-sensory and inter-sensory (i.e. cutaneous senses, kinesthesia, and pr...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Young children can use their subjective straight-ahead to remap visuo-motor alterations
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Young children and adults process spatial information differently: the former use their bodies as primary reference, while adults seem capable of using abstract frames. The transition is estimated to occur bet...
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Open AccessEnhanced audio-tactile multisensory interaction in a peripersonal task after echolocation
Peripersonal space (PPS) is created by a multisensory interaction between different sensory modalities and can be modified by experience. In this article, we investigated whether an auditory training, inside t...
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Open AccessHow body motion influences echolocation while walking
This study investigated the influence of body motion on an echolocation task. We asked a group of blindfolded novice sighted participants to walk along a corridor, made with plastic sound-reflecting panels. By...
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Open AccessAnticipatory action planning in blind and sighted individuals
Several studies on visually guided reach-to-grasp movements have documented that how objects are grasped differs depending on the actions one intends to perform subsequently. However, no previous study has exa...
