Michela Bassolino, Aurélie Bouzerda-Wahlen, Viviane Moix, Anne Bellmann, Bruno Herbelin, Andrea Serino, Olaf Blanke
Heterotopagnosia-without-Autotopagnosia (HwA) is characterized by the incapacity to point to body parts on others, but not on one's own body. This has been classically interpreted as related to a self-other distinction, with impaired visual representations of other bodies seen in third person perspective (3PP), besides spared own body somatosensory representations in 1PP. However, HwA could be impacted by a deficit in the integration of visual and somatosensory information in space, that are spatially congruent in the case of one's own body, but not for others' body...
June 15, 2019: Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior