About this Research Topic
Detecting and responding to an object near the head or body in peripersonal space is essential for successful interaction between an organism and its environment. Presently, there is a dearth of knowledge about the neural coding of the distance of a sound relative to the head in the auditory system, or about the coding of an object relative to the head or body in the proprioceptive system. Thus, neural coding of a nearby object is an important subject for neuroscience, and there is a great need to advance knowledge about how the sensory and motor systems mediate peripersonal-space behavior. The present Research Topic is intended to draw investigators’ attention to the sensory and sensorimotor mechanisms underlying both the perception of objects, and the performance of actions in close proximity to the body, and to facilitate efforts toward making progress in this area.
The goal of this Research Topic is to encourage investigators to address the following questions.
- How do the auditory and visual systems represent the distance (or depth) of an acoustic or a visual stimulus near the head and the body?
- How does the proprioceptive system represent the position of a nearby object in 3 dimensions, particularly regarding the distance of the object relative to the head and the body?
- In multisensory (e.g., visual, auditory, and somatosensory) situations involving peripersonal space, how is the distance of an object from the head and the body processed and integrated across the sensory modalities?
- How is such multisensory information processed to produce appropriate motor outputs?
- What is known and what is unknown about sensory and sensorimotor processes that underlie peripersonal-space behavior?
We seek articles that address the above questions, and will also consider articles that are related to one or more of the following keywords: sensory coding of stimulus distance; multisensory processing; peripersonal space; dorsal and ventral cortical streams; sensorimotor integration.
Submission to this Research Topic can be of any type specified by Frontiers in Neuroscience such as Original Research, Brief Research Report, Review, Mini-Review, Hypothesis and Theory, and Perspective. We would like contributors to address how the distance of a stimulus is represented within a sensory system in unimodal or multimodal sensory contexts, or in sensorimotor contexts. We welcome investigations in humans or animals. Research may use any of a variety of behavioral, physiological, or theoretical/modeling methods. Submissions that attempt to delineate boundaries between what is known and unknown about a specific question within the present topic will also be welcome. We welcome reports of ‘null’ or ‘negative’ results.
The goal of this Research Topic is to encourage investigators to address the following questions.
- How do the auditory and visual systems represent the distance (or depth) of an acoustic or a visual stimulus near the head and the body?
- How does the proprioceptive system represent the position of a nearby object in 3 dimensions, particularly regarding the distance of the object relative to the head and the body?
- In multisensory (e.g., visual, auditory, and somatosensory) situations involving peripersonal space, how is the distance of an object from the head and the body processed and integrated across the sensory modalities?
- How is such multisensory information processed to produce appropriate motor outputs?
- What is known and what is unknown about sensory and sensorimotor processes that underlie peripersonal-space behavior?
We seek articles that address the above questions, and will also consider articles that are related to one or more of the following keywords: sensory coding of stimulus distance; multisensory processing; peripersonal space; dorsal and ventral cortical streams; sensorimotor integration.
Submission to this Research Topic can be of any type specified by Frontiers in Neuroscience such as Original Research, Brief Research Report, Review, Mini-Review, Hypothesis and Theory, and Perspective. We would like contributors to address how the distance of a stimulus is represented within a sensory system in unimodal or multimodal sensory contexts, or in sensorimotor contexts. We welcome investigations in humans or animals. Research may use any of a variety of behavioral, physiological, or theoretical/modeling methods. Submissions that attempt to delineate boundaries between what is known and unknown about a specific question within the present topic will also be welcome. We welcome reports of ‘null’ or ‘negative’ results.
Keywords: sensory coding of stimulus distance, multisensory processing, peripersonal space, dorsal and ventral cortical streams, sensorimotor integration
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
