Acute stress affects peripersonal space representation
Ellena, G.; Bertoni, T.; Durand-Ruel, M.; Thoresen, J.; Sandi, C.; Serino, A.
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Peripersonal space (PPS) is the region of space surrounding the body. It has a dedicated multisensory-motor representation, whose purpose is to predict and plan interactions with the environment, and which can vary depending on environmental circumstances. Here, we investigated the effect on the PPS representation of an experimentally induced stress response. We assessed PPS representation in healthy humans, before and after a stressful manipulation, by quantifying visuotactile interactions as a function of the distance from the body, while monitoring salivary cortisol concentration. Participants, who showed a cortisol stress response, presented enhanced visuotactile integration for stimuli close to the body and reduced for far stimuli. Conversely, individuals, with a less pronounced cortisol response, showed a reduced difference in visuotactile integration between the near and the far space. In our interpretation, physiological stress resulted in a freezing-like response, where multisensory-motor resources are allocated only to the area immediately surrounding the body.
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