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The peripheral and central nervous systems underlying haptic perception are reviewed and two experimental studies are presented. The first reports patterns of brain activation associated with identifying two physically separate sources of touch as having a common origin. The second comprises a case study of a stroke patient whose brain lesion resulted in impaired processing of touch for conscious perception but preserved use of the same information for action. The first study illustrates the integrative function of the brain in processing touch, whereas the second underlines the distributed nature of touch processing.
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Bracewell, R.M., Wimperis, A.S., Wing, A.M. (2008). Brain Mechanisms of Haptic Perception. In: Bicchi, A., Buss, M., Ernst, M.O., Peer, A. (eds) The Sense of Touch and its Rendering. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79035-8_3
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