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Peripersonal and reaching space differ: evidence from their spatial extent and multisensory facilitation pattern

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Zanini, A., Patané, I., Blini, E., Salemme, R., Koun, E., Farnè, A., Brozzoli, C.·2020·Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
DOI 10.1101/2020.06.01.127282PMC PMC8642341
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Peripersonal space (PPS) is a multisensory representation of the space near body parts facilitating interactions with the close environment. Studies on non-human and human primates converge in showing that PPS is a body-part-centred representation that guides actions. Because of these characteristics, growing confusion conflates peripersonal and arm-reaching space (ARS), that is the space one’s arm can reach. Despite neuroanatomical evidence favors their distinction, no study has contrasted directly their respective extent and behavioral features. Here, in five experiments (N=140) we found that PPS differs from ARS, as evidenced both by participants’ spatial and temporal performance and its modeling. We mapped PPS and ARS using both their respective gold standard tasks and a novel multisensory facilitation paradigm. Results show that 1) PPS is smaller than ARS; 2) multivariate analyses of spatial patterns of multisensory facilitation predict participants’ hand locations within ARS; 3) the multisensory facilitation map shifts isomorphically following hand positions, revealing hand-centred coding of PPS, therefore pointing to a functional similarity to the receptive fields of monkeys’ multisensory neurons. A control experiment further corroborated these results and additionally ruled out the orienting of attention as driving mechanism for the increased multisensory facilitation near the hand. In sharp contrast, ARS mapping results in a larger spatial extent, with undistinguishable patterns across hand positions, cross-validating the conclusion that PPS and ARS are distinct spatial representations. These findings urge for a refinement of theoretical models of PPS, which is relevant to constructs as diverse as self-representation, social interpersonal distance, and motor control.

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  • Recent evidence points to genuine differences between PPS and reachability spatial representations.

    “recent evidence also points to genuine differences between these spatial representations”

    From The Peripersonal Space in a social world (2021) · cites this paper as Zanini et al., 2020

  • Since both PPS and PS refer to spatial representations in relation to the body, they might loosely share some features, but empirical dissociations suggest cautions for a unifying conceptual framework.

    “Since both PPS and PS refer to spatial representations in relation to the body, they might loosely share some features but to date the empirical dissociations reported above (see also (Zanini et al., 2020) and the different experimental approaches suggest some cautions should be kept in mind when trying to delineate a unifying conceptual framework.”

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Authors
Zanini, A., Patané, I., Blini, E., Salemme, R., Koun, E., Farnè, A., & Brozzoli, C.
Affiliations
Lyon 1 Université (FR)
Corresponding author
  • Zanini, A.
  • Brozzoli, C.
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Venue
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Publisher
openRxiv
Published
2020-06-02
Volume
28
Issue
6
Pages
1894-1905
ISSN
1069-9384 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1101/2020.06.01.127282
PMC
PMC8642341
OpenAlex
W3173931308
Cited by
35
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Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 7
FWCI
5.32
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en
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  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Florence Research (University of Florence) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Iris (University of Trento) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
  • Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • James S. McDonnell Foundation (ANR-16-CE28-0015-01)
  • Dipartimenti di Eccellenza (DM 11/05/2017, DM 11/05/2017 n. 262)
  • European Commission (HORIZON2020, 746154)
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-16, ANR-11-LABX-0042, ANR-10, ANR-10-IBHU-0003, ANR-16-CE28-0015, ANR-16-CE28-0008)
  • Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (DM 11/05/2017 n.262, ANR-11-LABX-0042, DM 11/05/2017 n, DM 11/05/2017)
  • Università degli Studi di Padova (DM 11/05/2017 n. 262, ANR-11-LABX-0042)
  • Labex (ANR-11-LABX-0042)
  • Vetenskapsrådet (2015-01717)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
Keywords
peripersonal space, spatial representation, receptive fields, multisensory neurons, self-representation, interpersonal distance, motor control, attention
MeSH terms
Body Image, Hand, Neurons, Personal Space, Space Perception

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