Distortion of mental body representations

MR Longo - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Our body is central to our sense of self, and distorted body representations are found in
several serious medical conditions. This paper reviews evidence that distortions of body …

Body size estimation in obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis

S Tagini, F Scarpina, M Zampini - Experimental brain research, 2021 - Springer
Previous research about body size estimation in obesity reported heterogeneous results.
This might be related to the fact that the tasks adopted explored different body …

Biases in hand perception are driven by somatosensory computations, not a distorted hand model

VC Peviani, LE Miller, WP Medendorp - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
To sense and interact with objects in the environment, we effortlessly configure our fingertips
at desired locations. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the underlying control …

Morphology, connectivity, and encoding features of tactile and motor representations of the fingers in the human precentral and postcentral gyrus

G Mastria, E Scaliti, C Mehring, E Burdet… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Despite the tight coupling between sensory and motor processing for fine manipulation in
humans, it is not yet totally clear which specific properties of the fingers are mapped in the …

Perception of tactile distance on the back

A Nicula, MR Longo - Perception, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The perceived distance between two touches is anisotropic on many parts of the body.
Generally, tactile distances oriented across body width are perceived as larger than …

Tool-use training in augmented reality: Plasticity of forearm body schema does not predict sense of ownership or agency in older adults

A Jahanian Najafabadi, D Küster, F Putze… - Experimental Brain …, 2023 - Springer
In young adults (YA) who practised controlling a virtual tool in augmented reality (AR), the
emergence of a sense of body ownership over the tool was associated with the integration of …

[PDF][PDF] Representation and perception of the body in space

M Bassolino, A Serino - Encyclopedia of behavioral neuroscience, 2021 - arodes.hes-so.ch
Résumé The perception of our body is mediated by cortical representations of the body and
the space around it. Body representations are constantly updated by the integration of …

No differences in implicit hand maps among different degrees of autistic traits

S Hidaka, N Chen, N Ishii, R Iketani, K Suzuki… - Autism …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or higher levels of autistic traits have atypical
characteristics in sensory processing. Atypicalities have been reported for proprioceptive …

Tactile distance anisotropy on the feet

K Manser-Smith, L Tamè, MR Longo - Attention, Perception, & …, 2021 - Springer
Perception of distance between two touches varies with orientation on the hand, with
distances aligned with hand width perceived as larger than those aligned with hand length …

Perception, action, and the body model

LA Coelho, CLR Gonzalez - Neuropsychologia, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract In 1992, Goodale and Milner proposed to study the visual system based on
function, thus dissociating vision for perception (ventral stream) and vision for action (dorsal …