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 …

In the last decade, a considerable amount of studies investigated different
neuropsychological syndromes related to the disorder of body awareness. In this paper, we …

Selecting appropriate defensive behaviours for threats approaching the space surrounding
the body (peripersonal space, PPS) is crucial for survival. The extent of defensive PPS is …

Recently, a monothematic delusion of body ownership due to brain damage (ie, the
embodiment of someone else's body part within the patient's sensorimotor system) has been …

When body ownership is impaired after brain-damage, the capacity to discriminate between
one's own and others' body-parts is lost. Delusional body-ownership has been recently …

Résumé The perception of our body is mediated by cortical representations of the body and
the space around it. Body representations are constantly updated by the integration of …

To investigate the relationship between the sense of body ownership and motor control, we
capitalized on a rare bizarre disorder wherein another person's hand is misattributed to their …

The excitability of brainstem circuitries mediating defensive blinking in response to abrupt
sensory inputs is continuously modulated by cortical areas, eg, the hand-blink reflex (HBR) …

Our research focused on the role of vision and proprioception in modulating a defensive
reflex (hand blink reflex, HBR) whose magnitude is enhanced when the threatened hand is …

Pain has an inhibitory effect on the corticospinal excitability that has been interpreted as an
evolutionary mechanism, directed to down-regulate cortical activity in order to facilitate rapid …