Perception involves motor control of sensory organs. However, the dynamics underlying emergence of perception from motor-sensory interactions are not yet known. Two extreme possibilities are as follows: (1) motor and sensory signals interact within an open-loop scheme in which motor signals determine sensory sampling but are not affected by sensory processing and (2) motor and sensory signals a...

Background: Perplexing questions exist regarding the reliability of human eyewitnesses and form the purpose for this study: why two observers can have different recollections of the same event and simultaneously be both wrong? Material/Method: Public domain records, related to sensory processing and perception, have been studied; selection emphasis has been on the most recent publications. Syst...

Neurons in high-level sensory cortical areas respond to complex features in sensory stimuli. Feature elimination is a useful technique for studying these responses. In this approach, a complex stimulus, which evokes a neuronal response, is simplified, and if the cell responds to the reduced stimulus, it is considered selective for the remaining features. We have developed a feature-elimination ...

Humans perceive their body posture, size, and position in space even when they do not look at their body. The ability to perceive the body correctly is essential to move accurately in space. The purpose of this review is to introduce the reader to the latest views on the role of peripheral afferent signals in the generation and alteration of perception of the body. First, the contribution of pr...