Paradigms for Restoration of Somatosensory Feedback via Stimulation of the Peripheral Nervous System

Obtaining feedback from our environment and estimating the internal states of our body is essential for decision making and survival. Humans constantly integrate inputs from multiple sensory sources in an unconscious fashion over all available channels. Millions of sensors located in the eye, ear, and skin collect hundreds of thousands of bits per second (Küpfmüller, 1974). Unconscious sensory integration and processing is necessary to prevent information overload from these sensory inputs. This intrinsic mechanism is essential to function, yet, overlooked under normal physiological conditions.

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