ArticleExperimental brain research2017
The recalibration of tactile perception during tool use is body-part specific.
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- Are tools truly incorporated as an extension of the body representation?: Assessing the evidence for tool embodiment.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Review
- No evidence for sex differences in tactile distance anisotropy.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Online proprioception feeds plasticity of arm representation following tool-use in healthy aging.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Anisotropies of tactile distance perception on the face.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2020Article
- Enlarged representation of peripersonal space in pregnancy.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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- A Conceptual Model of Tactile Processing across Body Features of Size, Shape, Side, and Spatial Location.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Tool-Use Training Induces Changes of the Body Schema in the Limb Without Using Tool.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
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- Embodying functionally relevant action sounds in patients with spinal cord injury.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Two decades of research have demonstrated that using a tool modulates spatial representations of the body. Whether this embodiment is specific to representations of the tool-using limb or extends to representations of other body parts has received little attention. Several studies of other perceptual phenomena have found that modulations to the primary somatosensory representation of the hand transfers to the face, due in part to their close proximity in primary somatosensory cortex. In the present study, we investigated whether tool-induced recalibration of tactile perception on the hand transfers to the cheek. Participants verbally estimated the distance between two tactile points applied to either their hand or face, before and after using a hand-shaped tool. Tool use recalibrated tactile distance perception on the hand-in line with previous findings-but left perception on the cheek unchanged. This finding provides support for the idea that embodiment is body-part specific. Furthermore, it suggests that tool-induced perceptual recalibration occurs at a level of somatosensory processing, where representations of the hand and face have become functionally disentangled.
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