How Tool-Use Shapes Body Metric Representation: Evidence From Motor Training With and Without Robotic Assistance

How Tool-Use Shapes Body Metric Representation: Evidence From Motor Training With and Without Robotic Assistance

Previous evidence has shown that tool-use can reshape one’s own body schema, extending peripersonal space and modulating the representation of related body parts. Here, we investigated the role of tool action in shaping the body metric representation, by contrasting two different views. According to...

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Main Authors: Valentina Bruno, Ilaria Carpinella, Marco Rabuffetti, Lorenzo De Giuli, Corrado Sinigaglia, Francesca Garbarini, Maurizio Ferrarin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
coexistence between goal representation and bodily movements
peripersonal space
tool-use
body metric representation
robotic assistance
passive movements
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00299/full

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