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Title: Body schema plasticity after stroke: Subjective and neurophysiological correlates of the rubber hand illusion
Authors: Llorens, Roberto
Borrego, Adrián
Palomo, Priscila
Cebolla, Ausiàs
Noé, Enrique
Badiae, Sergi Bermudez I. 
Baños, Rosa
UNESCO Clasification: 32 Ciencias médicas
249001 Neurofisiología
Keywords: Body schema
Body-ownership
Embodiment
GSR: galvanic skin response
Neurophysiology, et al
Issue Date: 2017
Journal: Neuropsychologia 
Abstract: Stroke can lead to motor impairments that can affect the body structure and restraint mobility. We hypothesize that brain lesions and their motor sequelae can distort the body schema, a sensorimotor map of body parts and elements in the peripersonal space through which human beings embody the reachable space and ready the body for forthcoming movements. Two main constructs have been identified in the embodiment mechanism: body-ownership, the sense that the body that one inhabits is his/her own, and agency, the sense that one can move and control his/her body. To test this, the present study simultaneously investigated different embodiment subcomponents (body-ownership, localization, and agency) and different neurophysiological measures (galvanic skin response, skin temperature, and surface electromyographic activity), and the interaction between them, in clinically-controlled hemiparetic individuals with stroke and in healthy subjects after the rubber hand illusion. Individuals with stroke reported significantly stronger body-ownership and agency and reduced increase of galvanic skin response, skin temperature, and muscular activity in the stimulated hand. We suggest that differences in embodiment could have been motivated by increased plasticity of the body schema and pathological predominance of the visual input over proprioception. We also suggest that differences in neurophysiological responses could have been promoted by a suppression of the reflex activity of the sympathetic nervous system and by the involvement of the premotor cortex in the reconfiguration of the body schema. These results could evidence a body schema plasticity promoted by the brain lesion and a main role of the premotor cortex in this mechanism.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/48104
ISSN: 0028-3932
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.01.007
Source: Neuropsychologia[ISSN 0028-3932],v. 96, p. 61-69 (Febrero 2017)
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