Human superior parietal lobule is involved in somatic perception of bimanual interaction with an external object.

The question of how the brain represents the spatial relationship between the own body and external objects is fundamental. Here we investigate the neural correlates of the somatic perception of bimanual interaction with an external object. A novel bodily illusion was used in conjunction with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Another way to move chromosomes.

A typical way of moving chromosomes is exemplified by mitotic segregation, in which the centromere is directly captured by spindle microtubules. In this study, we highlight another way of moving chromosomes remotely from outside the nucleus, which involves SUN and KASH domain nuclear envelope proteins. SUN and KASH domain protein families are known to connect the nucleus to cytoskeletal networks and play a role in migration and positioning of the nucleus.

Human limb-specific and non-limb-specific brain representations during kinesthetic illusory movements of the upper and lower extremities.

Sensing movements of the upper and lower extremities is important in controlling whole-body movements. We have shown that kinesthetic illusory hand movements activate motor areas and right-sided fronto-parietal cortices. We investigated whether illusions for the upper and lower extremities, i.

Mathematical folding of node chains in a molecular network.

Under the framework of network artificial chemistry (NAC), a method to construct a phenotypic machine from genotypic information is proposed. The genotype is expressed as a sequence of nodes (a node chain) with symbol data. According to an implemented algorithm, a chain is agglomerated, tangled, and finally folded into a node cluster that works as a control-flow machine in the network.