PSY2002 W5 Reading

Question 1

What was the result of the paper?

Abstract

Answer 1

Animal/human studies suggests that primate brain constructs various body-part-centred representations of
space, based on visual, tactile and proprioceptive information. Can change active tool-use that extends reachable space and modifies representation of peripersonal space.

Question 2

What was the concluding remarks?

Answer 2

Recent research from several very different approaches
— notably electrophysiology, psychology and neu
ropsychology — has converged in demonstrating that
representations for the disposition of our various body
parts and of the spaces within which they can act are
constructed in a multisensory fashion.