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Distinct contributions of extrastriate body area and temporoparietal junction in perceiving one's own and others' body

Cazzato, Valentina
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Mian, Emanuel
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Serino, Andrea  
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2015
Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience

The right temporoparietal cortex plays a critical role in body representation. Here, we applied repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over right extrastriate body area (EBA) and temporoparietal junction (TPJ) to investigate their causative roles in perceptual representations of one's own and others' body. Healthy women adjusted size-distorted pictures of their own body or of the body of another person according to how they perceived the body (subjective task) or how others perceived it (intersubjective task). In keeping with previous reports, at baseline, we found an overall underestimation of body size. Crucially, EBA-rTMS increased the underestimation bias when participants adjusted the images according to how others perceived their own or the other woman's body, suggesting a specific role of EBA in allocentric body representations. Conversely, TPJ-rTMS increased the underestimation bias when participants adjusted the body of another person, either a familiar other or a close friend, in both subjective and intersubjective tasks, suggesting an involvement of TPJ in representing others' bodies. These effects were body-specific, since no TMS-induced modulation was observed when participants judged a familiar object. The results suggest that right EBA and TPJ play active and complementary roles in the complex interaction between the perceptions of one's own and other people's body.

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DOI
10.3758/s13415-014-0312-9
Web of Science ID

WOS:000349757700017

PubMed ID

25047105

Author(s)
Cazzato, Valentina
Mian, Emanuel
Serino, Andrea  
Mele, Sonia
Urgesi, Cosimo
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Springer

Published in
Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience
Volume

15

Issue

1

Start page

211

End page

228

Subjects

Body image

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Eating disorders

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Temporoparietal junction

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Extrastriate body area

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation

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REVIEWED

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