Sex differences in the human visual system

JE Vanston, L Strother - Journal of neuroscience research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This Mini‐Review summarizes a wide range of sex differences in the human visual system,
with a primary focus on sex differences in visual perception and its neural basis. We …

“My Hand Is Different”: Altered Body Perception in Stroke Survivors with Chronic Pain

BS Haslam, DS Butler, GL Moseley, AS Kim, LM Carey - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Chronic pain and body perception disturbance are common following stroke. It
is possible that an interaction exists between pain and body perception disturbance, and …

Distorted body representations are robust to differences in experimental instructions

L Tamè, N Bumpus, SA Linkenauger… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2017 - Springer
Several recent reports have shown that even healthy adults maintain highly distorted
representations of the size and shape of their body. These distortions have been shown to …

Hand size representation in healthy children and young adults

R Van der Looven, M Deschrijver, L Hermans… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Whereas we experience our body as a coherent volumetric object, the brain appears to
maintain highly fragmented representations of individual body parts. Little is known about …

Calibration to tool use during visually-guided reaching

B Day, E Ebrahimi, LS Hartman, CC Pagano, SV Babu - Acta psychologica, 2017 - Elsevier
In studying human perception and performance researchers must understand how the body
schema is modified to accurately represent one's capabilities when tools are used, as …

Metric biases in body representation extend to objects

V Peviani, FG Magnani, G Bottini, L Melloni - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
We typically misestimate the dimensions of our body eg, we perceive our fingers as shorter,
and our torso as more elongated, than they actually are. It stands to reason that those metric …

The relationship between the body and the environment in the virtual world: The interpupillary distance affects the body size perception

D Mine, N Ogawa, T Narumi, K Yokosawa - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Previous research suggests that the size of one's body is used as a metric to scale the
external world. On the other hand, the influence of information from the external world on the …

The influence of perceptual–motor variability on the perception of action boundaries for reaching.

LPY Lin, NM McLatchie… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Successful interactions within the environment are contingent upon the perceiver's ability to
perceive the maximum extent over which they can perform actions, commonly referred to as …

Diagnostics and training of affordance perception in healthy young adults—Implications for post-stroke neurorehabilitation

J Randerath, SH Frey - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Affordance perception is critical to adaptive behavior. It comprises the ability to evaluate
whether the environment and the actor's capabilities enable particular actions. It remains …

Haptic touch modulates size adaptation aftereffects on the hand

S Hidaka, R Tucciarelli, S Yusuf… - Journal of …, 2024 - eprints.bbk.ac.uk
When we interact with objects using our hands, we derive their size through our skin.
Prolonged exposure to an object leads to a perceptual size aftereffect: adapting to a …