ReviewCognitive neuropsychology
What can errors tell us about body representations?
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- The dynamic bodily self across lifespan: Agency, ownership, and the plasticity of internal body models.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Proprioception impacts body perception in healthy aging - Insights from a psychophysical and computational approach.iScience · 2025Article
- Have I Been Touched? Subjective and Objective Aspects of Tactile Awareness.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Increased temporal binding during voluntary motor task under local anesthesia.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The signing body: extensive sign language practice shapes the size of hands and face.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- When Right Goes Left: Phantom Touch Induced by Mirror Box Procedure in Healthy Individuals.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Explicit and Implicit Own's Body and Space Perception in Painful Musculoskeletal Disorders and Rheumatic Diseases: A Systematic Scoping Review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Proprioceptive errors in the localization of hand landmarks: What can be learnt about the hand metric representation?PloS one · 2020Article
- Commentary: An Adaptation-Induced Repulsion Illusion in Tactile Spatial Perception.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Mind the Gap: The Effects of Temporal and Spatial Separation in Localization of Dual Touches on the Hand.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
In this review, we examine how tactile misperceptions provide evidence regarding body representations. First, we propose that tactile detection and localization are serial processes, in contrast to parallel processing hypotheses based on patients with numbsense. Second, we discuss how information in primary somatosensory maps projects to body size and shape representations to localize touch on the skin surface, and how responses after use-dependent plasticity reflect changes in this mapping. Third, we review situations in which our body representations are inconsistent with our actual body shape, specifically discussing phantom limb phenomena and anesthetization. We discuss problems with the traditional remapping hypothesis in amputees, factors that modulate perceived body size and shape, and how changes in perceived body form influence tactile localization. Finally, we review studies in which brain-damaged individuals perceive touch on the opposite side of the body, and demonstrate how interhemispheric mechanisms can give rise to these anomalous percepts.
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