Our body is central to our sense of self, and distorted body representations are found in
several serious medical conditions. This paper reviews evidence that distortions of body …

Abstract In 1992, Goodale and Milner proposed to study the visual system based on
function, thus dissociating vision for perception (ventral stream) and vision for action (dorsal …

Numerous studies have shown that the representation of the hand is distorted. When
participants are asked to localize unseen points on the hand (eg the knuckle), it is perceived …

Delusions and misperceptions about the body are a conspicuous feature of numerous
neurological and psychiatric conditions. In stark contrast to such pathological cases, the …

Internal spatial body configurations are crucial to successfully interact with the environment
and to experience our body as a three-dimensional volumetric entity. These representations …

The representation of our body location is achieved by integrating sensorimotor inputs with
information about our body size. Previous studies have shown that the metric representation …

Recent studies have revealed that human position sense relies on a massively distorted
representation of hand size and shape. By comparing the judged location of landmarks on …

Several studies have shown that the perception of one's own hand size is distorted in
proprioceptive localization tasks. It has been suggested that those distortions mirror …

Both tactile distance perception and position sense are believed to require that immediate
afferent signals be referenced to a stored representation of body size and shape (the body …

Several recent reports have shown that even healthy adults maintain highly distorted
representations of the size and shape of their body. These distortions have been shown to …