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Multisensory integration and the body schema: Close to hand and within reach

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Maravita, Angelo, Spence, Charles, Driver, Jon·2003·Current Biology

Abstract

There has been a recent and dramatic growth of interest in the psychological and neural mechanisms of multisensory integration between different sensory modalities. Much of this recent research has focused specifically on how multisensory representations of body parts and of the 'peripersonal' space immediately around them, are constructed. Research has also focused on how this may lead to multisensorially determined perceptions of body parts, to action execution, and even to attributions of agency and self-ownership for the body parts in question. Converging evidence from animal and human studies suggests that the primate brain constructs various body-part-centred representations of space, based on the integration of visual, tactile and proprioceptive information. These representations can plastically change following active tool-use that extends reachable space and also modifies the representation of peripersonal space. These new results indicate that a modern cognitive neuroscience approach to the classical concept of the 'body schema' may now be within reach.

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  • Representations can change following active tool-use, which can extend the participants' representation of peripersonal space.

    “representations can change following active tool-use, which can extend the participants’ representation of peripersonal space (Maravita, Spence & Driver, 2003).”

    From Designing sensory-substitution devices: Principles, pitfalls and potential1 (2016) · cites this paper as Maravita, Spence & Driver, 2003

  • 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
Maravita, A., Spence, C., & Driver, J.
Affiliations
  • University College London (GB)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author
Spence, Charles
Venue
Current Biology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2003-07
Volume
13
Issue
13
Pages
R531-R539
ISSN
0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2103633624
Cited by
578
References
85
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.30
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Current Biology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Medical Research Council
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Keywords
multisensory integration, body schema, peripersonal space, representation of the body, proprioception, tactile perception, visual perception, tool use, plasticity, agency, self-ownership, action execution
MeSH terms
Animals, Extremities, Humans, Orientation, Physical Stimulation, Posture, Proprioception, Space Perception, Touch, Visual Perception

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