In a Sensory Hack, What You Touch Affects What You See

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Scientists have found that manipulating a person's sense of touch can confuse their sense of sight, an intriguing finding that suggests that touch and vision are integrated in the human brain…. For decades, instructors in medical schools have taught students that the senses —including vision, touch and sound — are interpreted in different, discrete parts of the brain, says Michael Beauchamp of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. "Now it turns out what we're teaching them is wrong," he says. "There's a lot more cross talk between the modalities"

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