- New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
- The core discovery: Visual cortex isn’t purely visual — it’s tiled with orderly somatotopic maps, aligned with the maps in primary somatosensory cortex. Seeing recruits the same body-based computational machinery you use to feel your own body. x.com/HedgerResear...Nov 26, 2025 16:00
- This provides a mechanistic basis for everyday vicarious experiences — like flinching when you see someone fall — but the implications go far deeper: • Social cognition • Sensory and clinical neuroscience (e.g., ASD) • Embodied AI & AGI development
- Massive congratulations to lead author @HedgerResearch, and co-authors Thomas Naselaris and @cvnlab . Read the open-access paper here 👇 bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps #Neuroscience #BrainMapping #VicariousTouch
