Highlights d Human sensorimotor system rapidly localizes touch on a hand-held tool d Brain responses in a deafferented patient suggest vibrations encode touch location d Somatosensory cortex efficiently extracts touch location from the tool's vibrations d Somatosensory cortex reuses neural processes devoted to mapping touch on the body Authors
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