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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"peripersonal space"”.
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Testosterone administration increases the size of womens' peripersonal space: An embodied index of social dominance
Peripersonal space (PPS) is the space immediately surrounding the body, encoded by a specific frontoparietal network of multimodal neurons. Stimuli in PPS are represented in a body-part centred manner in terms of possibilities for action, and PPS representations function to facilitate defensive …
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Models for the study of neuronal activity during cognitive tasks
… visual stimuli in the representation of the near space around the body (peripersonal space). This work describes an original neural network to simulate representation of the peripersonal space around the hands, in basal conditions and after training with a tool used to reach the far space. The …
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Investigating social cognition and personal space through tactile event-related potentials in virtual reality
… tactile stimuli over the somatosensory cortex in peripersonal space (PPS) have been found in previous research, with a similar enhancement occurring during social cognition. This heightened somatosensory response is indicative of the brain’s sensitivity to respond to multisensory stimuli in the …
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Controllo dell'atto di prensione: coinvolgimento dell'area V6A nell'orientamento del polso
… the arm during movements towards objects in the peripersonal space (Galletti et al. 1997; Fattori et al. 2001). The present results confirm this finding and demonstrate that during the reach-to-grasp the V6A neurons are also modulated by the orientation of the wrist. Experiments were approved by …
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The relationship between hand-nearness, emotional arousal, and visual processing
When an observer holds his or her hands near an object: hand-nearness), visual processing of that object differs in several ways from visual processing of an object far from the hands. Interestingly, the changes that visual processing undergoes during hand-nearness are the same as those that occur …