What difference is there between the visual experience of watching the moon in the sky and the visual experience of seeing a snake slither by your foot?
It is easy to believe our interpretation of the world is split into a binary mode, between the bodily self and everything outside it. There is, however, a buffer zone in the immediate surrounding of the body, known as peripersonal space, in which boundaries are blurred. The notion of peripersonal
space calls into question not only our entrenched theories of perception, but also has major implications on the way we perceive personal and social awareness.
Research has yielded a vast array of exciting discoveries on peripersonal space, across a variety of disciplines: ethology, social psychology, anthropology, neurology, psychiatry, and cognitive neuroscience. The World at Our Fingertips: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Peripersonal Space brings
these perspectives together for the first time, as well as introducing a philosophical dialogue to the questions.
Edited by a team of leading psychologists and philosophers in the fields of peripersonal space and bodily awareness, this comprehensive volume presents the reader with a fresh, accessible dialogue between authorities from vastly different areas of thought.
Author(s): Frédérique de Vignemont, Andrea Serino, Hong Yu Wong, Alessandro Farnè
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 352
City: Oxford
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The World at Our Fingertips
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Contents
Contributors
Part I
1. Peripersonal space: A special way of representing space
2 Peri-personal space as an interface for self-environment interaction: A critical evaluation and look ahead
3 Close is better: Visual perception in peripersonal space
4 Functional networks for peripersonal space coding and prediction of impact to the body
5 Visuo-tactile predictive mechanisms of peripersonal space
6 Functional actions of hands and tools influence attention in peripersonal space
7 Dissecting the experience of space as peripersonal
Part II
8 Do we represent peripersonal space?
9 What do ‘peripersonal space measures’ really reflect? The action field perspective
10 Feeling the world as being here
11 The dual structure of touch: The body versus peripersonal space
12 Sameness of place and the senses
13 The structure of egocentric space
Part III
14. Peripersonal space, bodily self-awareness, and the integrated self
15 The social dimension of peripersonal space
16 Action and social spaces in typical development and in autism spectrum disorder
17 Risk-taking behaviour as a central concept in evolutionary biology
18 Human emotional expression and the peripersonal margin of safety
Index
