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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Human Motor Control
  • Perception and Action

Background:

  • The brain anticipates future events to guide goal-directed actions.
  • Peripersonal space, the area around the body, is crucial for interaction with the environment.
  • Understanding how peripersonal space adapts dynamically is key to understanding anticipatory behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if peripersonal hand space is dynamically mapped into the future during object manipulation planning.
  • To explore the anticipatory nature of peripersonal space remapping based on planned grasps.
  • To examine crossmodal interactions within peripersonal space during goal-directed actions.

Main Methods:

  • Combined the crossmodal congruency paradigm (CCP) with an object manipulation task.
  • Varied object orientation trial-by-trial to alter the anticipated grasp.
  • Measured visual-tactile interactions and the influence of tactile stimulation on gaze behavior.

Main Results:

  • Visual distractors near anticipated finger positions influenced vibrotactile perception.
  • Vibrotactile stimulation affected gaze behavior in anticipation of the grasp.
  • These crossmodal interactions occurred before hand movement, shortly after target onset.

Conclusions:

  • Peripersonal hand space is flexibly remapped to future inferred hand positions.
  • This anticipatory remapping supports theories of event encoding and predictive behavior.
  • The findings demonstrate a dynamic, future-oriented representation of peripersonal space.