Laurence Have, François Quesque, Anne-Emmanuelle Priot, Véronique Chastres, Patrice Revol, Ludovic Delporte, Eric Chabanat, Nathalie Obadia, François Cotton, Karen T Reilly, Yves Rossetti
INTRODUCTION: We report a very unique clinical presentation of a patient who complained, after a left parietal brain damage, about feeling tactile stimulations on his right upper limb without being able to localize them. METHODS: Using a single case study approach, we report three experiments relying on several custom-made tasks to explore the different levels of somatosensory information processing, ranging from somato-sensation to somato-representation. RESULTS: Our results showed a preserved ability to localize tactile stimuli applied on the right upper limb when using pointing responses while the ability to localize was less efficient when having to name the stimulated part (akin Numbsense)...
2023: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience