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Gender and the Body Size Aftereffect: Implications for Neural Processing
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019 Prolonged exposure to wide (thin) bodies causes a perceptual aftereffect such that subsequently viewed bodies appear thinner (wider) than they actually are. This phenomenon is known as visual adaptation.
Kevin R. Brooks +9 more
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Body image perception and satisfaction in university students
Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano, 2020 Body image represents the mental perception of body shapes and is a multifactorial structure that includes psychological, physical and emotional elements.
Ingrid Ludimila Bastos Lôbo +5 more
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Implicit body representations and the conscious body image [PDF]
, 2012 Recent studies have revealed that somatosensory processing relies on a class of implicit body representations showing large distortions of size and shape.
Longo, Matthew R. +3 more
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Self awareness and the body image [PDF]
, 2009 What mental representations give us the sense of our body as a unique object in the world? We investigated this issue in the context of the rubber hand illusion (RHI), an illusion of body image in which a prosthetic hand brushed synchronously, but not ...
Longo, Matthew R. +9 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Visual adaptation has been proposed as a mechanism linking viewing images of thin women’s bodies with body size and shape misperception (BSSM). Non-Caucasian populations appear less susceptible to BSSM, possibly because adaptation to thin Caucasian ...
Lewis Gould-Fensom +13 more
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Seeing the body distorts tactile size perception [PDF]
, 2013 Vision of the body modulates somatosensation, even when entirely non-informative about stimulation. For example, seeing the body increases tactile spatial acuity, but reduces acute pain.
Longo, Matthew R., Sadibolova, Renata
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Agreement of adolescents’ self-perception of their body image with the analysis on the three-dimensional body image [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil, 2022 Objectives: to verify the agreement among adolescents’ perception of their own body image and the health professionals’ analysis based on three-dimensional body image and the inter-rater agreement. Methods: a cross-sectional study was carried out with 1,
Susana Cararo Confortin +6 more
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Body image perception of African immigrants in Europe [PDF]
Globalization and Health, 2016 Nutritional disorders are now spreading worldwide both in developed and developing countries. Body image ideals and dissatisfaction have been linked to a number of poor health outcomes, including nutritional disorders. While previous studies have offered insight into weight status and body image perception of immigrants in North America, very few ...
TOSELLI, STEFANIA +2 more
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Body perception in newborns [PDF]
, 2013 Body ownership and awareness has recently become an active topic of research in adults using paradigms such as the “rubber hand illusion” and “enfacement” [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11].
Johnson, Mark H. +14 more
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Body Image Perception and Preference in Anorexia Nervosa [PDF]
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1984 Nineteen female anorexics (10 restrictors and 9 with episodes of bulimia) and 19 matched normal weight females participated in a study of dimensions of body image perception and preference. Nineteen silhouettes which varied systematically in size of breasts, abdomen, buttocks, and legs were sorted according to perceived similarity and ordered according
B, Buree, D, Papageorgis, L, Solyom
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