Scholarpedia’s Encyclopedia of Touch provides a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed articles written by leading researchers, detailing our current scien

Hebb's postulate provided a crucial framework to understand synaptic alterations underlying learning and memory. Hebb's theory proposed that neurons that fire t

An examination of the two most radical dissociation syndromes of the human pain experience—pain without painfulness and painfulness without pain—and what th

A thought-provoking argument that consciousness—more widespread than previously assumed—is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever

Active touch can be described as the control of the position and movement of tactile sensing systems to facilitate information gain. In other words, it is findi