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The Sixth Sense Organs: The Hands Publisher



Saghazadeh A1, 2 ; Mojtabavi H2, 3 ; Khaksar R2 ; Rezaei N4, 5, 6
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  1. 1. Molecular Immunology Research Center, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. MetaCognition Interest Group (MCIG), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran
  3. 3. Student's Scientific Research Center (SSRC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  4. 4. Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  5. 5. Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  6. 6. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Expert Group (SRMEG), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran

Source: Biophysics and Neurophysiology of the Sixth Sense Published:2019


Abstract

The representation of peripersonal space is a parallel processing that simultaneously calls for visual and somatosensory information. Having both tactile and visual receptive fields (RF), bimodal neurons mediate this parallel processing, and their damage, for example, due to stroke, can lead to disturbances in the perception of peripersonal space and therefore in being made aware of the self in the body. Of particular interest to this chapter is the role that the multisensory representations of the peripersonal space play in the unconscious form of the bodily self-consciousness. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.