Purposeful motor actions depend on the brain’s representation of the body, called the body schema, and disorders of the body schema have been reported to show motor deficits. The body schema has been ...

Among dance forms, tango holds a unique and potent allure. It showcases two individuals—each with a separate mind, body, and bundle of goals and intentions, moving at times in close embrace, at times ...

This paper comprises a feminist phenomenological exploration of women's experiences with breast augmentation and breast reduction. Situating the results of semi-structured interviews in the context of ...

Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (USA) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their ...

The idea that the human brain sees tools as an extension of the body is an old one. Now scientists have some proof that it's true. Tool use is not entirely unique to humans, but the efficient use of a ...

People with anorexia nervosa have a distorted relationship with the dimensions of their body. A study by the team at the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at LWL University Hospital ...