Our body is central to our sense of self, and distorted body representations are found in
several serious medical conditions. This paper reviews evidence that distortions of body …

Many mental disorders are accompanied by distortions in the way the own body is perceived
and represented (eg, eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder including muscle …

Electromyography (EMG) enables hands-free interactions by detecting muscle activity at
different human body locations. Previous studies have demonstrated that input performance …

Proprioception acquires a crucial role in estimating the configuration of our body segments
in space when visual information is not available. Proprioceptive accuracy is assessed by …

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 …

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 …

The internal models of our body dimensions are prone to bias, but little evidence exists to
explain how the motor system achieves fine-grained control despite these distortions …

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 …

Despite our wealth of experience with our bodies, our perceptions of our body size are far
from veridical. For example, when estimating the relative proportions of their body part …

Recent research has shown that proprioception relies on distorted representations of body
size and shape. By asking participants to localise multiple landmarks in space, perceptual …