Mental representation of the body: Stability and change in response to illness and disability.

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Mayer ◽  
Myron G. Eisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Stability And Change

Mental representation of the body: Stability and change in response to illness and disability.

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-171
Author(s):  
John D. Mayer ◽  
Myron G. Eisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Stability And Change

scholarly journals Eye-tracking study of animate objects

Psihologija ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanja Kovic ◽  
Kim Plunkett ◽  
Gert Westermann
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
The Body

This study involved presentation of animate objects under labeling and non-labeling conditions and examination of participants' looking pattern across these conditions. Results revealed a surprisingly consistent way in which adults look at the pictures of animate objects. The head/eyes of the animals were a typical region attracting a number of fixations, but also some other parts of animals (e.g. the tail in cats, or the udder in cows and the body in snakes). Furthermore, not only did participants tend to look at similar regions of the pictures of animate objects, but also the looking order to these regions was consistent across participants. However, contrary to the original predictions, these patterns of fixations were similar across the naming and non-naming conditions ('Look at the <target>!', 'Look at the picture!' and 'What's this?', respectively), which led to the conclusion that participants' consistency in processing animate objects was not reflecting underlying mental representation evoked by labels, but was rather driven by the structural similarity of animate objects, in particular the presence of a head.

Psychophysical Properties of the Trunk Midline

1997 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 545-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Spidalieri ◽  
Roberto Sgolastra
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representation ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
The Body ◽  
Image Analysis System ◽  
Anatomic Landmarks ◽  
Straight Line ◽  
Anterior Trunk ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
The Right ◽  
Male Subjects

Spidalieri, Giuseppe and Roberto Sgolastra. Psychophysical properties of the trunk midline. J. Neurophysiol. 78: 545–549, 1997. This study was carry out to obtain direct evidence that the body midline actually is perceived and to assess some psychophysical properties of this line. Twelve normal, right-handed male subjects were asked to make accurate pointing movements toward the midline of the anterior trunk on the basis of their mental representation of this line. Each hand was used to point while the head was either aligned with the trunk or tilted 30° to the right or left. Analysis of end-positions of pointing on trunk images acquired by an image analysis system indicated that the trunk midline indeed is perceived as a straight line. Three putative trunk midlines were taken into consideration on the basis of anatomic landmarks, and it was found that the mental representation of the trunk midline came nearest to the line orthogonal to the intermammary line crossing its midpoint. The performing hand and the position of the head relative to the trunk both had an effect on the mental representation of the trunk midline. These findings suggest that somatosensory signals from the trunk, as well as proprioceptive input from the neck, contribute to the elaboration of the subject's mental representation of the trunk midline.

Body experience and mental representation of body image in patients with haematological malignancies and cancer as assessed with the Body Grid

2001 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cora Weber ◽  
Ekkehard Bronner ◽  
Pia Thier ◽  
Frank Schoeneich ◽  
Otto Walter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Haematological Malignancies ◽  
Body Experience

Spatial Mental Representation: Implications for Navigation System Design

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly A. Taylor ◽  
Tad T. Brunyé ◽  
Scott T. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Spatial Cognition ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
Navigation System ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
The Body ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
Design Consideration ◽  
Information Preferences ◽  
Domain Specific

Similarities exist in how people process and represent spatial information and in the factors that contribute to disorientation, whether one is moving through airspace, on the ground, or surgically within the body. As such, design principles for presenting spatial information should bear similarities across these domains but also be somewhat specific to each. In this chapter, we review research in spatial cognition and its application to navigation system design for within-vehicle, aviation, and endoscopic navigation systems. Taken together, the research suggests three general principles for navigation system design consideration. First, multimedia displays should present spatial information visually and action and description information verbally. Second, display organizations should meet users' dynamic navigational goals. Third, navigation systems should be adaptable to users' spatial information preferences. Designers of adaptive navigation display technologies can maximize the effectiveness of those technologies by appealing to the basic spatial cognition processes employed by all users while conforming to user's domain-specific requirements.

Mental representation of the body in action in Parkinson’s disease

2019 ◽  
Vol 237 (10) ◽  
pp. 2505-2521
Author(s):  
Federica Scarpina ◽  
Francesca Giulia Magnani ◽  
Sofia Tagini ◽  
Lorenzo Priano ◽  
Alessandro Mauro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
The Body

Emulator as body schema

2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-416
Author(s):  
Virginia Slaughter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representation ◽  
Body Schema ◽  
The Body

Grush's emulator model appears to be consistent with the idea of a body schema, that is, a detailed mental representation of the body, its structure, and movement in relation to the environment. If the emulator is equivalent to a body schema, then the next step will be to specify how the emulator accounts for neuropsychological and developmental phenomena that have long been hypothesized to involve the body schema.

The Rorschach and the Body

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norma Lottenberg Semer ◽  
Latife Yazigi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Object Relation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Object Representations ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Rorschach Comprehensive System ◽  
Psychosomatic Aspects ◽  
The Mind

Introduction: The Rorschach has proved to be of value in studies addressing the mind-body relationship since it enhances the understanding of this complex relation and its repercussions. Objective: To use some aspects of the Rorschach to explore the mental representation of the body through the study of self-esteem in children with enuresis. Method: The Rorschach Comprehensive System was administrated to 26 children with enuresis and 26 children without enuresis (children of the same age and social class) and 10 selected variables were tested; the Concept of the Object Scale for assessing object representations (ORS) was also used. Results: There is a significant difference in the X+% and EGO, so the children with enuresis show low self-esteem and difficulties perceiving reality. As for ORS, the children without enuresis showed greater freedom to fantasize, to use their imagination, and to identify their emotions and anxieties. The children with enuresis exhibited a greater tendency toward fragmentation in the perception of the self and of others, thus, a partial object relation. Conclusions: The Concept of the Object Scale for assessing object representations proved to be a useful instrument to grasp the level of the child’s psychological development. The study of the psychosomatic aspects permits an identification of relations between the body and self-esteem.

scholarly journals X-ray vision: a mental representation of the body of a young and of an elderly person

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (sup1) ◽  
pp. 196-196
Author(s):  
Maria do Rosário Dias ◽  
Ana Cristina Neves ◽  
Letícia Naben ◽  
Ana Lúcia Monteiro ◽  
Bernardo Claro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representation ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
The Body ◽  
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