Haptics in Neuroscience

The papers in this special section is to focus on the deployment of haptics in the field of neuroscience. The neuroscience of haptics has made many breakthroughs over the last six or so decades and these scientific advances are now being leveraged to develop new therapies for patients suffering from sensorimotor disorders and new technologies to improve our everyday lives. This special section features a broad range of studies, some of which advance our basic understanding of haptics, others develop devices to further study haptics neuroscience, and still others invoke what is known about the neural basis of haptics to develop new therapeutic or augmentative devices.