The rubber hand illusion (RHI) is a widely applied paradigm to investigate changes in body
representations. Extensive scientific interest has produced a great variability in the observed …

Over the last decades, scientists have questioned the origin of the exquisite human mastery
of tools. Seminal studies in monkeys, healthy participants and brain-damaged patients have …

Interaction with objects in the environment typically requires integrating information
concerning the object location with the position and size of body parts. The former …

In this paper, I discuss empirical evidence regarding anorexic patients' distorted body
representations. I fit this evidence into a broader framework for understanding how the …

The supernumerary robotic limb system expands the motor function of human users by
adding extra artificially designed limbs. It is important for us to embody the system as if it is a …

Humans hold a very accurate representation of the metrics of their body parts. Recent
evidence shows that the spatial estimation of body parts length, as assessed through a …

When interacting with objects and other people, the brain needs to locate our limbs and the
relevant visual information surrounding them. Studies on monkeys showed that information …

The peripersonal space is an adaptive and flexible interface between the body and the
environment that fulfills a dual-motor function: preparing the body for voluntary object …

Here we offer a thorough review of the empirical literature on the conditions under which an
object, such as a tool or a prosthetic (whether real or virtual), can be experienced as being in …

What factors constrain whether tool use modulates the user's body representations? To date,
studies on representational plasticity following tool use have primarily focused on the act of …