Introduction to special issue on body representation: feeling, seeing, moving and observing

Poliakoff, Ellen

doi:10.1007/s00221-010-2325-0

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“…They learn how to fi nd the edge of the pavement, using the kerb to navigate a safe way through the streets. Guide dogs may be regarded as 'limb objects' or extensions of the body that enable vision-impaired people to localise their bodies and limbs in space (see Imrie, 2003;Poliakoff, 2010). They act as a conduit for the body's movement, and a means to (re)connect vision-impaired people with the environment in ways whereby controlled movement can occur.…”

Section: Disembodied Urban Design and Shared Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Auto-Disabilities: The Case of Shared Space Environments

Imrie

2012

Environ Plan A

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Many urban environments are being redesigned around a relatively new approach to street design termed shared space. Shared space is a traffic engineering concept that eliminates physical barriers separating motor vehicles, pedestrians, and other road users to encourage a sharing of street space. Such sharing is seen as a means to calm traffic and to create convivial urban spaces. The evidence shows that local authorities in the UK and overseas are enthusiastic about shared space for its potential to enhance the urban realm. Vulnerable street users, such as vision-impaired people, do not share tbis enthusiasm. They perceive shared space as likely to bring them into increasing contact with motor vehicles, and as compromising their safety and well-being. Shared spaces are, potentially, what I refer to as auto-disabling environments. Referring to data from the UK, I develop the proposition that shared space can be characterised as 'disembodied urban design' that fails to capture the complexity of corporeal form and the manifold interactions of bodiesin-space. The disembodied understanding of the interactions between bodies, space, and movement, propagated by shared space design, (re)produces both existential insecurity and ontological uncertainty amongst certain categories of users, such as vision-impaired people. Shared space can be understood as a manifestation of disabling design in the built environment, and as a reaffirmation of disabled people's relative invisibility in relation to the crafting of designed spaces.

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Section: Disembodied Urban Design and Shared Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Auto-Disabilities: The Case of Shared Space Environments

Imrie

2012

Environ Plan A

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“…It is well known that the neuroanatomical basis influencing body representations includes an integrated system of cerebral areas and functional networks. The main brain regions involved in body representation are the thalamus, insula, and cerebellum [ 15 ]. On the other hand, the perception and ongoing knowledge of one’s body comes from different receptors and sensory modalities.…”

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Body Image and Emotional Status in Patients with Acquired Brain Injury

Buono

Corallo

Quartarone

et al. 2023

JCM

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Emotional experiences can lead to a real or distorted self-representation. After brain damage, altered self-perception of one’s own body image is frequent. This study evaluates the relationship of mood disorders and lesion sites on body image in a cohort of ABI patients. A total of 46 patients (26 men, 20 women) without severe physical impairments were found eligible for this study. Patients underwent Beck’s Depression Inventory and the Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety to assess mood disorders, whereas the Body Image Scale and Human Figure Drawing were used to evaluate body dissatisfaction and implicit body image. The Montreal Cognitive Assessment was used to assess patients’ cognitive condition. We found a moderate correlation between depression and body image (r = 0.48), as well as between anxiety and body image (r = 0.52), and the regression model also reported the right lesion site as a predictive variable for body image score. In addition, the regression model built by Human Figure Drawing scores showed anxiety, cognitive functioning, and a marital status of single to be significant predictors. The study confirmed that participants with acquired brain injury have deficits in body representation associated with mood disorders, regardless of the side of the lesions. A neuropsychological intervention could be useful for these patients to improve their cognitive performance and learn to manage emotional dysfunction in order to increase their self-perception of body image and improve their quality of life.

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