Typical biomechanical bias in the perception of congenitally absent hands
Typical biomechanical bias in the perception of congenitally absent hands
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先天性缺手感知中的典型生物力学偏差
DOI:
10.1016/j.cortex.2015.02.015
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发表时间:
2015
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影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
A. Caramazza
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作者:
G. Vannuscorps;A. Caramazza
There is compelling evidence that our perception of others’ bodies and movements is shaped by several 1 rules and constraints, such as the biomechanics of body movement, originally thought to affect only the 2 control and execution of actual movements (Grosjean, Shiffrar, & Knoblich, 2007; Parsons, 1987; Shiffrar & 3 Freyd, 1993). For numerous authors, this demonstrates that the perception of others’ bodies and movements 4 is supported by somatosensory and motor representations of our own body (Grush, 2004; Hommel, Müsseler, 5 Aschersleben, & Prinz, 2001; Wilson & Knoblich, 2005). Accordingly, the presence or absence of effects of 6 body constraints on body perception is increasingly used as an index of, respectively, the integrity or 7 impairment of covert stages of action production in patients with motor execution disabilities (eg, Conson, 8 Pistoia, Sarà, Grossi, & Trojan, 2010; Conson et al., 2013; de Lange, Roelofs, & Toni, 2008; Fioro, Tinazzi, 9 & Aglioti, 2006; Helmich, de Lange, Bloem, & Toni, 2007; Munzert, Lorey, & Zengraf, 2009; Nico, Daprati, 10 Rigal, Parsons, & Sirigu, 2004). For example, because the response latencies of patients with left cerebral 11 palsy in judging the laterality of presented hand drawings are positively correlated with biomechanical 12 difficulty of the hand configurations, but not those of patients with right cerebral palsy, it was concluded that 13 only the latter group of patients suffer from a motor planning deficit (Mutsaarts, Steenbergen, & Bekkering, 14 2007). 15However, these biomechanical constraints biases might simply reflect how the visuo-perceptual system 16 processes and represents human bodies (Shiffrar & Freyd, 1993; Tessari, Ottoboni, Symes, & Cubelli, 2010; 17 Vannuscorps, Pillon, & Andres, 2012). Evidence for this alternative comes mainly from the observation that 18 two individuals born with severely reduced upper limbs (congenital bilateral upper limb dysmelia) also 19 showed biomechanical biases when asked to provide perceptual judgments about hand postures and upper 20 limb movements (AZ: Brugger et al., 2000; Funk & Brugger, 2008; Funk, Shiffrar & Brugger, 2005; DC: 21 Vannuscorps et al., 2012). The evidence from those studies, however, could be challenged on the ground that 22 DC and AZ had upper limb stumps and, therefore, were not totally deprived of motor experience with the 23 upper limbs (and motor representations thereof). In addition, AZ presented with a rare profile of very vivid 24 phantom sensations of the missing body parts that she was able to intentionally “move”, making her case 25 difficult to interpret. 26