{"id":7550,"date":"2025-12-02T15:02:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/cinn\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:02:29","slug":"vicarious-body-maps-bridge-vision-and-touch-in-the-human-brain-a-new-publication-in-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/cinn\/vicarious-body-maps-bridge-vision-and-touch-in-the-human-brain-a-new-publication-in-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicarious Body Maps Bridge Vision and Touch in the Human Brain – A New Publication in Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image source=”featured_image” img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]We\u2019re pleased to announce that a paper by Dr Nicholas Hedger and colleagues has been published in the journal Nature<\/em>.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In a new paper published in Nature<\/em>, Dr Nicholas Hedger, together with collaborators from the Free University Amsterdam and the University of Minnesota, uncover why watching an injury on screen can sometimes make you ‘feel’ the injury yourself.<\/p>\n

The paper highlights the brain organisation supporting cross-modal integration of visual and somatosensory information.<\/span> Through analysing participants’ brain activity as they watched two different films, the study shows that watching movie scenes can activate touch-processing regions of your own brain in a highly organised way. These amazing findings were revealed using clever analyses and call into question some traditional views of the visual system and somatosensory mapping (cf Penfield’s homunculus). <\/span><\/p>\n

The University of Reading’s press office wrote a press release summarising the findings and their potential for clinical applications, see https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/news\/2025\/Research-News\/Brain-body-maps-bridge-vision-and-touch-in-human-\u2026<\/a><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Access the paper published in Nature here: https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09796-0<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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