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2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca Saetta ◽  
Olivia Zindel-Geisseler ◽  
Franziska Stauffacher ◽  
Carlo Serra ◽  
Gilles Vannuscorps ◽  
...  

Asomatognosia designates the experience that one’s body has faded from awareness. It is typically a somaesthetic experience but may target the visual modality (“asomatoscopy”). Frequently associated symptoms are the loss of ownership or agency over a limb. Here, we elaborate on the rigorous nosographic classification of asomatognosia and introduce a structured interview to capture both its core symptoms and associated signs of bodily estrangement. We additionally report the case of a pure left-sided hemiasomatognosia occurring after surgical removal of a meningioma in the right atrium. Despite the wide lesions of the right angular gyrus and of the temporo-parietal junction, the patient did not present visuospatial deficits or bodily awareness disorders other than hemiasomatognosia. The patient and 10 matched controls’ motor imagery was formally assessed with a limb laterality task in which they had to decide whether hands and feet presented under different angles of rotation depicted a left or a right limb. Bayesian statistics showed that patient’s reaction times were significantly impaired exclusively for the left foot and especially for mental rotations requiring somatomotor rather than visual limb representations. This was in accordance with a more enduring left-sided hemiasomatognosia for the lower limbs confined to the somesthetic modality. Our findings shed new light on motor imagery in asomatognosia and encourage the future use of the structured interview introduced here. In addition, the limb laterality task may capture phenomenological elements of a case by chronometric means. This allows a more standardized reporting of phenomenological detail and improves communication across different clinical facilities.


2020 ◽  
pp. 174702182098552
Author(s):  
Lucette Toussaint ◽  
Aurore Meugnot ◽  
Christel Bidet-Ildei

The present experiment aimed to gain more information on the effect of limb nonuse on the cognitive level of actions and, more specifically, on the content of the motor program used for grasping an object. For that purpose, we used a hand-grasping laterality task that is known to contain concrete information on manipulation activity. Two groups participated in the experiment: an immobilized group, including participants whose right hand and arm were fixed with a rigid splint and an immobilization vest for 24 hours, and a control group, including participants who did not undergo the immobilization procedure. The main results confirmed a slowdown of sensorimotor processes, which is highlighted in the literature, with slower response times when the participants identified the laterality of hand images that corresponded to the immobilized hand. Importantly, the grip-precision effect, highlighted by slower response times for hands grasping a small sphere versus a large sphere, is impaired by 24 hours of limb nonuse. Overall, this study provided additional evidence of the disengagement of sensorimotor processes due to a short period of limb immobilization.


2020 ◽  
Vol 203 ◽  
pp. 103010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Conson ◽  
Francesco De Bellis ◽  
Chiara Baiano ◽  
Isa Zappullo ◽  
Gennaro Raimo ◽  
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Author(s):  
Emmanuel Mellet ◽  
Bernard Mazoyer ◽  
Gaelle Leroux ◽  
Marc Joliot ◽  
Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer

2014 ◽  
Vol 232 (12) ◽  
pp. 3873-3895 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Zapparoli ◽  
Paola Invernizzi ◽  
Martina Gandola ◽  
Manuela Berlingeri ◽  
Antonio De Santis ◽  
...  

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. e70734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimiliano Conson ◽  
Elisabetta Mazzarella ◽  
Alessandro Frolli ◽  
Dalila Esposito ◽  
Nicoletta Marino ◽  
...  

PLoS ONE ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. e23316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuala Brady ◽  
Corrina Maguinness ◽  
Áine Ní Choisdealbha

2011 ◽  
Vol 211 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Áine Ní Choisdealbha ◽  
Nuala Brady ◽  
Corrina Maguinness

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 1007-1013 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Branch Coslett ◽  
Jared Medina ◽  
Dasha Kliot ◽  
Adam R. Burkey

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