Saccades to somatosensory targets have longer latencies and are less accurate and precise than saccades to visual targets. Here we examined how different somatosensory information influences the planning and control of saccadic eye movements. Participants fixated a central cross and initiated a saccade as fast as possible in response to a tactile stimulus that was presented to either the index ...

We previously reported that a kinesthetic illusion, induced by a visual stimulus using a movie video (KiNVIS), produces vivid kinesthetic feeling in a healthy subject and in a patient with stroke, even though the body is actually in a resting condition [1-3]. The subjective kinesthesia felt in the first person during KiNVIS is generally vivid and, in our experience, stronger than that experienc...

The development of a child is very important for parents. Every parent wants their to grow up well and be strong good quality child. One the efforts that parents can do from an early age stimulate with baby massage method. Massage therapy one complementary therapies tactile-kinesthetic stimulation. given since infancy increase stimulation receptors on skin, affect brain cells, interaction betwe...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effect of 7 days tactile kinesthetic stimulation (TKS) on preterm infants' weight and hospital stays in Khartoum State, Sudan. METHODS This is a quasi-experimental study, it was conducted in 4 hospitals between January and June 2013, Khartoum, Sudan, and it involved 160 preterm infants randomly assigned into the case and control groups (80 neonates in each). Preter...

A system for haptic (i.e. kinesthetic and cutaneous) stimulation of the hand is described. While our immediate application involves display of speech information, a number of other man-machine interface applications may be feasible, including force-feedback devices for computer interaction and human pattern extraction from multiple datastreams. Our work is motivated by the observation that devi...

The aim was to investigate tactile discrimination performance under various active and passive conditions and explore the influence of visual information. Participants had to discriminate the direction of lateral pin strokes on their fingertip under three conditions. In one condition (" static ") only tactile stimulation was provided. In a second condition (" active ") the shear force device wa...

BACKGROUND After stroke, visuospatial and kinesthetic (sense of limb motion) deficits are common, occurring in approximately 30% and 60% of individuals, respectively. Although both types of deficits affect aspects of spatial processing necessary for daily function, few studies have investigated the relationship between these 2 deficits after stroke. OBJECTIVE We aimed to characterize the rela...

In this paper we present an innovative haptic device that combines the electro-tactile stimulation with the force and visual feedbacks in order to improve the perception of a virtual world. We discuss the sensation evoked in a user by the haptic, force, and the visual interface as provided by this device, implemented as a special glove, equipped with sensors and actuators connected to a PC. The...