Body-Specific Attention to the Hands and Feet in Healthy Adults.

ABSTRACT: To execute the intended movement, the brain directs attention, called body-specific attention, to the body to obtain information useful for movement. Body-specific attention to the hands has been examined but not to the feet. We aimed to confirm the existence of body-specific attention to the hands and feet, and examine its relation to motor and sensory functions from a behavioral perspective. The study included two groups of 27 right-handed and right-footed healthy adults, respectively. Visual detection tasks were used to measure body-specific attention. We measured reaction times to visual stimuli on or off the self-body and calculated the index of body-specific attention score to subtract the reaction time on self-body from that off one. Participants were classified into low and high at

SUBMITTER: Aizu N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8821660 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature