Body Measurement Schema
It is hypothesized that a body weight selfschema has both universalistic and particularistic aspects.
Body measurement schema. The present experiment was designed to determine if pain influences the body schema. After reading this article you will learn about body schema and body image with the help of an experiment. The body schema an internal model in the brain used to recall the body position is known to be updated by adapting to the changes in the body figure due to the body growth. Which we normally take for granted may be disarranged.
One concept of body image is as an internalized view of ones appearance that drives behavior and influences information processing. A phenomenon which fascinated physiologists and psychologists alike was that in certain conditions of brain damage or mental illness the facts regarding our body mind complex like height size of fingers sensations of the limbs etc. However to our knowledge few previous investigations have examined whether there are peripheral factors that influence the body schema for a discussion of neural plasticity in the somatosensory cortex following amputation see ramachandran and hirstein 1998. Research on updating of body schema using ar limb and measurement of the updated value abstract.
In that capacity body image has been defined in many ways. 1987 argued that the body weight selfschema is of special interest because it is both. All individuals have some conception of their body image universalistic aspect but there is considerable variation in the way they will process stimuli with reference to body weight.