Chiara Razzuoli
Feeling Without Touching: Cortical and Perceptual Hand Representations through Intracortical Microstimulation of the Human Somatosensory Cortex.
Rel. Danilo Demarchi. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Biomedical Engineering, 2025
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Recent advancements in neurotechnology allow the use of implantable mechatronic systems to record and stimulate the human nervous system. Thanks to this intimate contact with neural structures (e.g., brain, spinal cord), such technology can both restore functions lost due to injury or disease (e.g., motor control, vision, speech) and study brain mechanisms with unprecedented resolution. One example is the human somatosensation, shaped by principles of somatotopic and hierarchical organization of the primary somatosensory cortex (S1). By measuring tactile perception, we learn not only about the organization of the somatic sensory system, but also about the formation of coherent mental body representations.
Extensive evidence demonstrated large and systematic perceptual distortions of tactile space
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