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a multidisciplinary exploration of peripersonal space
1 online resource (viii, 334 pages) : illustrations.
Research into peripersonal space has yielded exciting discoveries across many fields, from anthropology to cognitive neuroscience. Bringing these perspectives together for the first time, The World at Our Fingertips presents a fresh, accessible dialogue, challenging entrenched ideas about the way people see and understand the world around them.
Cover -- Half title -- The World at Our Fingertips -- Copyright -- 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
edited by Frédérique de Vignemont, Andrea Serino, Hong Yu Wong, Alessandro Farnè.
Includes bibliographical references and index.