Patients were asked to point to small objects mounted on the body, acting as a body reference system ( body schema ).
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Dr . Dennis Proffitt, a psychologist at the University of Virginia, studies how the body schema affects our perception of the environment.
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If deficits in body part localization are due to impairments in body schema, then patients should be deficient in reaching and grasping objects.
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And when they use a tool, a rake, a joystick or an automobile, their body schema and peripersonal space expand to include it.
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Using modern methods for probing brains, they are uncovering the exact cells and circuits that create body schemas, in monkeys as well as humans.
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Dr . Atsushi Iriki, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Riken Institute in Japan, was one of the first to explore body schema using modern techniques.
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The concept was introduced into psychology and education through the work of the British psychologist Frederic Bartlett, who drew on the term body schema used by neurologist Henry Head.
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The peripersonal neurons may also play a central role in the body schema an internally computed model of the body first proposed to exist by Head and Holmes in 1911.
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This suggests that aspects of schema in the mind ( body schema, world schema ) have neurologic bases that cannot be revised by mere intellectual understanding at least not quickly.
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Gerstmann studied patients whose deficits were in the body schema and thus lacked the ability to recognize, identify or name the fingers on either hand, a phenomenon known as finger agnosia.
