Have I Been Touched? Subjective and Objective Aspects of Tactile Awareness.
Brain Sciences June 27, 2024 Emanuele Cirillo, Claudio Zavattaro, Roberto Gammeri et al. 5 citations
Tactile experience is essential for interacting with objects, controlling actions, and forming relationships, and it is a foundational part of body awareness. How touch comes to consciousness is not a single, uniform process; it is modulated by factors such as whether we perceive our bodies as belonging to us. This review examines pathological conditions where people lack conscious touch yet show implicit processing, uses tactile illusions in healthy individuals and brain-damaged patients to reveal higher-order processes affecting tactile awareness, and discusses these observations in relation to models of touch and body representation.