To translate touch, the brain can quickly rearrange its sense of the body
...r arm move. The team then tested how these bodily illusions rearranged the sense of touch. They touched subjec...each new perception. de Vignemont et al.: "Bodily illusions modulate tactile perception." Publishing in Current Biology, Vol. 15, pages 1286?290, July 26, 2005....Stimulation of the semicircular canals can artificially control human walking and balance
... In a more practical view, this ability to produce illusions of movement, and then steer and balance the body by external control, leads the researchers to expect that stimulation techniques developed from the approach used in the new study will lead the way to diagnostic, therapeutic, and virtual-reality appl...In a study that could help reveal how illusions are produced in the brain's visual cortex, researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have found new evidence of rapid integration of auditory and visual sensations in the brain. Their findings, which provide new insight into neural mechanisms by wh...