ArticleExperimental brain research2018
Anisotropy of lateral peripersonal space is linked to handedness.
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- Do sounds near the hand facilitate tactile reaction times? Four experiments and a meta-analysis provide mixed support and suggest a small effect size.Experimental brain research · 2020Pooled it
- Beyond multisensory peripersonal space: Multiple origins of tactile facilitation induced by approaching stimuli.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Effect of spatial attention on anatomical and external reference frames in tactile localization.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Auditory selective attention in depth: Investigating directional dependency across front, lateral, and rear spaces.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Comparison of peripersonal space in front and rear spaces.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Temporal properties of the speed-accuracy trade-off for arm-pointing movements in various directions around the body.PloS one · 2023Article
- Peripersonal space around the upper and the lower limbs.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Peripersonal space in the front, rear, left and right directions for audio-tactile multisensory integration.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Lower limb peripersonal space and the desire to amputate a leg.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Auditory roughness elicits defense reactions.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Social coding of the multisensory space around us.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
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Abstract
The space immediately surrounding our bodies, i.e., peripersonal space (PPS), is a critical area for the interaction with the external world, be it to deal with imminent threat or to attain objects of interest. In the brain, a dedicated system codes PPS in motor terms for the purpose of action. Yet, humans have asymmetric motor abilities: the dominant hand has an advantage in term of movements' precision and reaction time. Furthermore, spatial attention is asymmetric and seems to be linked to a right hemispheric dominance for spatial processing. Here, we tested whether handedness and attentional asymmetries impact the detection of a tactile stimulus when an irrelevant auditory stimulus is looming towards the individual from the right or left hemispace. We examined the distance at which sound started speeding up tactile detection to estimate the morphometry of peri-trunk PPS. Our results show that right-handers' PPS is larger in the left than in the right hemispace, whereas left-handers' PPS is symmetric. The expansion of right-handers' PPS on the side of the non-dominant hand is coherent with a protective function of PPS. Left-handers' symmetric PPS can be related to the symmetric request of their motor abilities induced by living in a right-handers' world. These findings reveal that PPS is not uniform and suggest that general mechanisms of spatial processing as well as motor skills could play a role in the representation of peri-trunk PPS.
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