“…For the somatosensory system, motor-related signals at different levels of the sensorimotor system can affect virtually all levels of the tactile processing pathway ( Zagha et al, 2013 ; Manita et al, 2015 ; Canedo, 1997 ; Fanselow and Nicolelis, 1999 ; Lee et al, 2008 ; Seki and Fetz, 2012 ; Adams et al, 2013 ) and incoming tactile information can be predictively filtered during action, making it possible for the sensorimotor system to attenuate irrelevant inputs and highlight task-critical information ( Chapman, 1994 ; Bays et al, 2005 ; Blakemore et al, 1999 ). Since our task can be considered a tool-use task, it is also interesting to note that tool use is associated with dynamically remapping of space represented by central multisensory, predominantly tactile neurons ( Maravita and Iriki, 2004 ; Brozzoli et al, 2012 ). However, we are not aware of any studies that have directly compared the neural processing of exactly the same macrogeometric tactile information depending on whether used in fine dexterity tasks or in perceptual judgements.…”