Our brain has developed a specific system to represent the space closely surrounding the
body, termed peripersonal space (PPS). This space has a key functional role as it is where …

Humans are by nature social beings tuned to communicate and interact from the very
beginning of their lives. The sense of touch represents the most direct and intimate channel …

Cursors, avatars, virtual hands or tools, and other rendered graphical objects, enable users
to interact with computers such as PCs, game consoles or virtual reality systems. We …

Self-disturbances such as an anomalous perception of one's own body boundary are central
to the phenomenology of schizophrenia (SZ), but measuring the spatial parameters of the …

Navigating by path integration requires continuously estimating one's self-motion. This
estimate may be derived from visual velocity and/or vestibular acceleration signals …

Findings from diverse fields of study, including neuroscience, psychology, zoology, and
sociology, demonstrate that human and non‐human primates maintain a representation of …

Integrating information across sensory systems is a critical step toward building a cohesive
representation of the environment and one's body, and as illustrated by numerous illusions …

There is some evidence that disordered self-processing in autism spectrum disorders is
linked to the social impairments characteristic of the condition. To investigate whether bodily …

Interactions with the environment happen within one's peripersonal space (PPS)—the space
surrounding the body. Studies in monkeys and humans have highlighted a multisensory …

Peripersonal space (PPS) corresponds to the space around the body and it is defined by the
location in space where multimodal inputs from bodily and external stimuli are integrated. Its …