CIMeC Seminar - Andrea Serino

^18th January 2013
411am

• Andrea Serino, Center for Neuroprosthetics, EPFL, Lausanne. Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Bologna
   

Title: The body in its space

Abstract: The experience of our embodied self is not limited to the physical constraints of our body, but it extends into the space where the body interacts with the environment, i.e. peripersonal space (PPS). I will show how premotor and posterior-parietal brain regions represent PPS by integrating multisensory-motor signals related to the physical body and to the space immediately around it. I will show how the boundaries of PPS adapt as a function of experience: they extend after that a tool is used to act upon the far space, they contract in case of amputation, and further accommodate after prosthesis implantation. Finally, I will demonstrate that PPS boundaries are sensitive to the presence of and interaction with others.