ArticleExperimental brain research2021
Testosterone administration in women increases the size of their peripersonal space.
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- From peripersonal space to cognitive maps: An evolutionary perspective.Progress in neurobiology · 2026Review
- Interoceptive predictors of daily functioning in aging and their interaction with exteroceptive bodily representations.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Your space or mine: Trait anxiety affects the peripersonal space plasticity in a social context.iScience · 2025Article
- The evolutionary basis of elevated testosterone in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: an overview of systematic reviews of the evidence.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2024Review
- Refraining from interaction can decrease fear of physical closeness during COVID-19.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A normative model of peripersonal space encoding as performing impact prediction.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Tool-use Extends Peripersonal Space Boundaries in Schizophrenic Patients.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2022Article
- The Remapping of Peripersonal Space in a Real but Not in a Virtual Environment.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- During the COVID-19 pandemic participants prefer settings with a face mask, no interaction and at a closer distance.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Peripersonal Space from a multisensory perspective: the distinct effect of the visual and tactile components of Visuo-Tactile stimuli.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
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8 authors at 5 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
Peripersonal space (PPS) is the space immediately surrounding the body, conceptualised as a sensory-motor interface between body and environment. PPS size differs between individuals and contexts, with intrapersonal traits and states, as well as social factors having a determining role on the size of PPS. Testosterone plays an important role in regulating social-motivational behaviour and is known to enhance dominance motivation in an implicit and unconscious manner. We investigated whether the dominance-enhancing effects of testosterone reflect as changes in the representation of PPS in a within-subjects testosterone administration study in women (N = 19). Participants performed a visuo-tactile integration task in a mixed-reality setup. Results indicated that the administration of testosterone caused a significant enlargement of participants' PPS, suggesting that testosterone caused participants to implicitly appropriate a larger space as their own. These findings suggest that the dominance-enhancing effects of testosterone reflect at the level of sensory-motor processing in PPS.
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