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The World at Our Fingertips : A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Peripersonal Space, Hardback Book

The World at Our Fingertips : A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Peripersonal Space Hardback

Edited by Frederique (CNRS senior researcher, CNRS senior researcher, Institut Jean Nicod, Depar de Vignemont, Andrea (Professor, Head of Myspace Lab, Professor, Head of Myspace Lab, CHUV, University Hos Serino, Hong Yu (Professor, Chair of Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science, Professor, Chair of Phi Wong, Alessandro (INSERM senior researcher, INSERM senior researcher, ImpAct, Lyon Neuroscience Res Farne

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What difference is there between the visual experience of watching the moon in the sky and the visual experience of seeing a snake slither by your foot?It is easy to believe our interpretation of the world is split into a binary mode, between the bodily self and everything outside it.

There is, however, a buffer zone in the immediate surrounding of the body, known as peripersonal space, in which boundaries are blurred.

The notion of peripersonal space calls into question not only our entrenched theories of perception, but also has major implications on the way we perceive personal and social awareness. Research has yielded a vast array of exciting discoveries on peripersonal space, across a variety of disciplines: ethology, social psychology, anthropology, neurology, psychiatry, and cognitive neuroscience.

The World at Our Fingertips: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Peripersonal Space brings these perspectives together for the first time, as well as introducing a philosophical dialogue to the questions. Edited by a team of leading psychologists and philosophers in the fields of peripersonal space and bodily awareness, this comprehensive volume presents the reader with a fresh, accessible dialogue between authorities from vastly different areas of thought.

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