Sentence examples for body schemes from inspiring English sources

A subjective indicator of global naevi count was also assessed with a visual chart presenting four body schemes with different densities of naevi approximately corresponding to none, less than 20, between 20 and 40 and more than 40.

Conclusion: This is among the first studies to provide clinical evidence supporting the "postural body scheme" concept.

How to deal with his body when it has just finished building his own body scheme, when it is still very fragile?

This information participates to the recalibration of the body scheme [6].

Microgravity has always provided privileged conditions for studying the body scheme.

The body scheme involves an overall representation, including parts of both the exocentric and egocentric reference frames.

Lackner and Graybiel [9] have shown, however, that the sense of relative body configuration is preserved under microgravity based on body scheme.

This suggests also that this ability to independently control the forearm and trunk under microgravity condition might be based on the use of the postural body scheme [10].

The first one use the same stabilising strategy as under terrestrial conditions to control each of their body segments independently, probably based on the body scheme and short term sensorimotor memory.

Other authors have used the body scheme concept to explain subjects' ability to stabilise their head in space despite the perturbations resulting from the voluntary trunk oscillations occurring under short-term and long-term microgravity conditions [41], [42].

Indeed, the postural body scheme is normally used to control posture according to a feed-forward process, based on internal representations such as the body geometry, the forces exerted on the ground and the orientation of the subject's body in relation to the vertical pull of gravity [4], [5].