Somatosensory Evoked Potentials: Beyond Somesthesis
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 February 2026
Special Issue Editors
Interests: brain oscillations; movement; EEG; ERP; somatosensory evoked potentials; sensorimotor; astronauts; sports; weightlessness
Interests: brain oscillations; cerebellum; movement; electrophysiology; EEG; somatosensory evoked potentials; artificial neuron networks; oculomotricity
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the classical view of robust indicators of somesthetic afferent information and primary somatosensory cortex demarcation, somatosensory evoked potentials present centripetal and centrifuge-originated gating properties that can extend from sensorimotor to multimodal integration in the brain. Under more recent perspectives, taking brain dynamics into consideration, they can be shaped by both bottom-up and top-down mechanisms supported by cerebral rhythms. Such sensibilities confer upon them the role of a portal for approaching the cognitive and affective weight on the body information or, the other way around, approaching the weight of body information on cognition and emotion. Somatosensory evoked potentials can be used to track the link between the exploration movements we use to probe the world and the world’s response to them.
They represent an opportunity to access modified consciousness states by travelling the somesthetic pathways. The aim of this Special Issue is to reunite original research, including neurotechnology applications, and review articles focusing on somatosensory evoked potentials as (multimodal) sensory motor integration and inhibition keys opening a door to cognition from the body information and, vice versa, as a human essential characteristic from which to approach metacognition.
Dr. Ana Maria Cebolla
Prof. Dr. Guy Cheron
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- somatosensory evoked potentials
- EEG
- brain oscillations
- movement
- gating
- modified consciousness states
- motor learning
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