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Extending or projecting peripersonal space with tools? Multisensory interactions highlight only the distal and proximal ends of tools

Holmes, Nicholas P., Calvert, Gemma A., Spence, Charles·2004·Neuroscience Letters

Abstract

The effects of tool-use on the brain's representation of the body and of the space surrounding the body ('peripersonal space') has recently been studied within a number of disciplines in cognitive neuroscience, and is also of great interest to philosophers and behavioural ecologists. To date, most experimental findings suggest that tool-use extends the boundary of peripersonal space-visual stimuli presented at the tips of tools interact more with simultaneous tactile stimuli presented at the hands than visual stimuli presented at the same distance, but not associated with the tools. We studied the proposed extension of peripersonal space by tool-use by measuring the effects of three different tool-use tasks on the integration of visual and tactile stimuli at three distances from participants' hands along two hand-held tools. When the tool-use task required using the shafts or the tips of the tools, visuotactile interactions were stronger at the tips of the tools than in the middle of the shaft. When the handles of the tools were used, however, visuotactile interactions were strongest near the hands and decreased with distance along the tools. These results suggest that tools do not simply 'extend' peripersonal space, but that just the tips of tools actively manipulated in extrapersonal space are incorporated into the brain's visuotactile representations of the body and of peripersonal space.

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  • Tool use may cause changes in visuo-tactile integration and in the receptive fields of visuo-tactile cells in the parietal cortex, such that peripersonal space appears to extend from the hand to the tool.

    “Tool use may cause changes in visuo-tactile integration (39–41) and in the receptive fields of visuo-tactile cells in the parietal cortex (42), so that it appears as if peripersonal space extends from the hand to the tool.”

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Authors
Holmes, N. P., Calvert, G. A., & Spence, C.
Affiliations
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • University of Bath (GB)
Corresponding author
Holmes, Nicholas P.
Venue
Neuroscience Letters
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2004-11
Volume
372
Issue
1-2
Pages
62-67
ISSN
0304-3940 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2002699182
Cited by
197
References
24
Citations by year
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FWCI
11.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Neuroscience Letters (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Wellcome Trust (065696)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
Keywords
peripersonal space, tool use, visual-tactile integration, multisensory integration, representation of the body, extrapersonal space, tool tip, hand tools, multisensory interaction
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Brain, Distance Perception, Female, Hand, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Personal Space, Photic Stimulation, Psychomotor Performance, Touch

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