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Evidence for Multiple, Distinct Representations of the Human Body

¹ Cabrini College, Radnor, PA, ² University of Pennsylvania

Reprint request should be sent to H. Branch Coslett, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, or via e-mail: hbc{at}mail.med.upenn.edu.

Previous data from single-case and small group studies have suggested distinctions among structural, conceptual, and on-line sensorimotor representations of the human body. We developed a battery of tasks to further examine the prevalence and anatomic substrates of these body representations. The battery was administered to 70 stroke patients. Fifty-one percent of the patients were impaired relative to controls on at least one body representation measure. Further, principal components analysis of the patient data as well as direct comparisons of patient and control performance suggested a triple dissociation between measures of the 3 putative body representations. Consistent with previous distinctions between the "what" and "how" pathways, lesions of the left temporal lobe were most consistently associated with impaired performance on tasks assessing knowledge of the shape or lexical–semantic information about the body, whereas lesions of the dorsolateral frontal and parietal regions resulted in impaired performance on tasks requiring on-line coding of body posture.

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