An implicit body representation underlying human position sense

An implicit body representation underlying human position sense.

Knowing the body's location in external space is a fundamental perceptual task. Perceiving the location of body parts through proprioception requires that information about the angles of each joint (i.e., body posture) be combined with information about the size and shape of the body segments between joints. Although information about body posture is specified by on-line afferent signals, no se...

Distortions in Touch and Position Sense 1 RUNNING HEAD: Distortions in Touch and Position Sense No Correlation between Distorted Body Representations Underlying Tactile Distance Perception and Position Sense

No Correlation between Distorted Body Representations Underlying Tactile Distance Perception and Position Sense

Both tactile distance perception and position sense are believed to require that immediate afferent signals be referenced to a stored representation of body size and shape (the body model). For both of these abilities, recent studies have reported that the stored body representations involved are highly distorted, at least in the case of the hand, with the hand dorsum represented as wider and s...

Motor commands contribute to human position sense.

The role of afferent inflow and efferent outflow (or command) signals in judgements of limb position has been debated for over a century. One way to assess this is to check for changes during complete paralysis, with the current view being that perceived movements or position changes do not usually accompany attempts to contract paralysed muscles. To re-examine this, we asked six naïve subjects...

The Position of Implicit and Indirect Learning in Ethical Education

The rationalist approach has been dominated on the education environment of values for many years. Unilateral and excessive focus on this approach has revealed ignorance of a vast part of human implicit learning and his intuitive ethical judgments which have been the source of many ethical behaviors. The study intends to answer the question that why only direct and deductive educations about va...