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94Explicit and Implicit Own's Body and Space Perception in Painful Musculoskeletal Disorders and Rheumatic Diseases: A Systematic Scoping ReviewFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 14. 2020.
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91The person in the mirror: Using the enfacement illusion to investigate the experiential structure of self-identificationConsciousness and Cognition 21 (4): 1725-1738. 2012.How do we acquire a mental representation of our own face? Recently, synchronous, but not asynchronous, interpersonal multisensory stimulation between one’s own and another person’s face has been used to evoke changes in self-identification. We investigated the conscious experience of these changes with principal component analyses that revealed that while the conscious experience during synchronous IMS focused on resemblance and similarity with the other’s face, during asynchronous IMS it focus…Read more
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85Political Theory with an Ethnographic SensibilityContemporary Political Theory 20 (2): 385-418. 2021.Political theory is a field that finds nourishment in others. From economics, history, sociology, psychology, and political science, theorists have drawn a rich repertoire of schemas to parse the social world and make sense of it. With each of these encounters, new subjects are brought into focus as others recede into the background, ushering a change not only in how questions are tackled but also in what questions are thought worth asking.
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50Where exactly am I? Self-location judgements distribute between head and torsoConsciousness and Cognition 24 70-74. 2014.
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44Tool use induces complex and flexible plasticity of human body representationsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 35 (4). 2012.Plasticity of body representation fundamentally underpins human tool use. Recent studies have demonstrated remarkably complex plasticity of body representation in humans, showing that such plasticity (1) occurs flexibly across multiple time scales and (2) involves multiple body representations responding differently to tool use. Such findings reveal remarkable sophistication of body plasticity in humans, suggesting that Vaesen may overestimate the similarity of such mechanisms in humans and non-…Read more
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39Merging second-person and first-person neuroscienceBehavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (4): 429-430. 2013.Schilbach et al. contrast second-person and third-person approaches to social neuroscience. We discuss relations between second-person and first-person approaches, arguing that they cannot be studied in isolation. Contingency is central for converging first- and second-person approaches. Studies of embodiment show how contingencies scaffold first-person perspective and how the transition from a third- to a second-person perspective fundamentally involves first-person contributions
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37Flexibility and development of mirroring mechanismsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (1): 31-31. 2008.The empirical support for the shared circuits model (SCM) is mixed. We review recent results from our own lab and others supporting a central claim of SCM that mirroring occurs at multiple levels of representation. By contrast, the model is silent as to why human infants are capable of showing imitative behaviours mediated by a mirror system. This limitation is a problem with formal models that address neither the neural correlates nor the behavioural evidence directly
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29Automaticity and inhibition in action planningBehavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (1): 44-45. 2004.We question the generalizability of Glover's model because it fails to distinguish between different forms of planning. The highly controlled experimental situations on which this model is based, do not reflect some important factors that contribute to planning. We discuss several classes of action that seem to imply distinct planning mechanisms, questioning Glover's postulation of a single “planning system.”.
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28Dissociating contributions of head and torso to spatial reference frames: The misalignment paradigmConsciousness and Cognition 53 105-114. 2017.
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23Emotion is perceived accurately from isolated body parts, especially handsCognition 230 (C): 105260. 2023.
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22Shared contributions of the head and torso to spatial reference frames across spatial judgmentsCognition 204 (C): 104349. 2020.
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19Conceptual distortions of hand structure are robust to changes in stimulus informationConsciousness and Cognition 61 107-116. 2016.Hands are commonly held up as an exemplar of well-known, familiar objects. However, conceptual knowledge of the hand has been found to show highly stereotyped distortions. Specifically, people judge their knuckles as farther forward in the hand than they actually are. The cause of this distal bias remains unclear. In Experiment 1, we tested whether both visual and tactile information contribute to the distortion. Participants judged the location of their knuckles by pointing to the location on t…Read more
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19Mental body representations retain homuncular shape distortions: Evidence from Weber’s illusionConsciousness and Cognition 40 17-25. 2016.
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19The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11Cambridge University Press. 2017.Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences that dominate the news, it reveals borders to be thick, multi-faceted and binational institutions that have evolved greatly in recent decades. The book contributes to debates within political …Read more
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19Reconstructing neural representations of tactile spaceNeuroImage 229. 2021.Psychophysical experiments have demonstrated large and highly systematic perceptual distortions of tactile space. Such a space can be referred to our experience of the spatial organisation of objects, at representational level, through touch, in analogy with the familiar concept of visual space. We investigated the neural basis of tactile space by analysing activity patterns induced by tactile stimulation of nine points on a 3 × 3 square grid on the hand dorsum using functional magnetic resonanc…Read more
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17Eating and body image: Does food insecurity make us feel thinner?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40. 2017.
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16Intuitive anatomy: Distortions of conceptual knowledge of hand structureCognition 142 (C): 230-235. 2015.
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16Curved sixth fingers: Flexible representation of the shape of supernumerary body partsConsciousness and Cognition 105 (C): 103413. 2022.
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16Perceptual and Conceptual Distortions of Implicit Hand MapsFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
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15A Conceptual Model of Tactile Processing across Body Features of Size, Shape, Side, and Spatial LocationFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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15Size Constancy Mechanisms: Empirical Evidence from TouchVision 6 (3). 2022.Several studies have shown the presence of large anisotropies for tactile distance perception across several parts of the body. The tactile distance between two touches on the dorsum of the hand is perceived as larger when they are oriented mediolaterally than proximodistally. This effect can be partially explained by the characteristics of primary somatosensory cortex representations. However, this phenomenon is significantly attenuated relative to differences in acuity and cortical magnificati…Read more
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14Body Size Adaptation Alters Perception of Test Stimuli, Not Internal Body ImageFrontiers in Psychology 10. 2019.
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13Mapping visual spatial prototypes: Multiple reference frames shape visual memoryCognition 198 (C): 104199. 2020.
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
European Philosophy |