ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2017
Dynamic Shaping of the Defensive Peripersonal Space through Predictive Motor Mechanisms: When the "Near" Becomes "Far".
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- Transfer of peripersonal space to a virtual body in young adults and exploration of adult age differences.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Modulation of multisensory nociceptive neurons in monkey cortical area 7b and behavioral correlates.Journal of neurophysiology · 2024Article
- The blink reflex and its modulation - Part 1: Physiological mechanisms.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024Review
- The role of early attachment experiences in modulating defensive peripersonal space.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- "Surrounded, detached": the relationship between defensive peripersonal space and personality.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Does musical interaction in a jazz duet modulate peripersonal space?Psychological research · 2021Article
- Prepulse inhibition vs cognitive modulation of the hand-blink reflex.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Interpersonal Motor Interactions Shape Multisensory Representations of the Peripersonal Space.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Muscular effort increases hand-blink reflex magnitude.Neuroscience letters · 2019Article
- Defensive peripersonal space is modified by a learnt protective posture.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Movement of environmental threats modifies the relevance of the defensive eye-blink in a spatially-tuned manner.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- How Tool-Use Shapes Body Metric Representation: Evidence From Motor Training With and Without Robotic Assistance.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- An Action Field Theory of Peripersonal Space.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2018Review
- Detecting peripersonal space: The promising role of ultrasonics.Brain and behavior · 2018Article
- Anxiety-dependent modulation of motor responses to pain expectancy.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2018Article
- Defending the Body Without Sensing the Body Position: Physiological Evidence in a Brain-Damaged Patient With a Proprioceptive Deficit.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Frontier of Self and Impact Prediction.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Review
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Abstract
The hand blink reflex is a subcortical defensive response, known to dramatically increase when the stimulated hand is statically positioned inside the defensive peripersonal space (DPPS) of the face. Here, we tested in a group of healthy human subjects the hand blink reflex in dynamic conditions, investigating whether the direction of the hand movements (up-to/down-from the face) could modulate it. We found that, on equal hand position, the response enhancement was present only when the hand approached to (and not receded from) the DPPS of the face. This means that, when the hand is close to the face but the subject is planning to move the hand down, the predictive motor system can anticipate the consequence of the movement: the "near" becomes "far." We found similar results both in passive movement condition, when only afferent (visual and proprioceptive) information can be used to estimate the final state of the system, and in motor imagery task, when only efferent (intentional) information is available to predict the consequences of the movement. All these findings provide evidence that the DPPS is dynamically shaped by predictive mechanisms run by the motor system and based on the integration of feedforward and sensory feedback signals.
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