Body Perception and Action Following Deafness

Houde, Marie-Soleil; Landry, Simon P.; Pagé, Sara; Maheu, Maxime; Champoux, François

doi:10.1155/2016/5260671

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“…Results from any participant demonstrating misunderstanding of task demand after the instruction sessions would have been removed from analysis. Thus eliminating the possibility of a misunderstanding, the increased error rate could be associated with the widely reported changes in body-related processes for deaf individuals (for review see ref [ 16 ]). More specifically, deaf individuals have been found to have significantly lower temporal tactile discrimination abilities [ 28 ].…”

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“…It would seem that audition plays a crucial, but under studied, role in the spatial mapping of touch. Indeed, there are several evidences of disturbed neural representation of the body following deafness (for a review, see ref [ 16 ]). In this study, we investigated spatial mapping of touch in the deaf using crossed-arm TOJ task [ 17 , 18 ].…”

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Deafness alters the spatial mapping of touch

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Auditory input plays an important role in the development of body-related processes. The absence of auditory input in deafness is understood to have a significant, and even irreversible, impact on these processes. The ability to map touch on the body is an important element of body-related processing. In this research, the crossed-arm temporal order judgment (TOJ) task was used to evaluate the spatial mapping of touch. This task elicits a conflict between visual and somatosensory body-related information through a change in posture. We used the crossed-arm TOJ task to evaluate the spatial mapping of touch in deaf participants. Results suggested that a change in posture had a greater impact on congenitally deaf participant TOJ than for hearing participants. This provides the first evidence for the role of early auditory exposure on spatial mapping of touch. More importantly, most deaf participants had auditory prosthetics which provided auditory input. This suggests an important, and possibly irreversible, impact of early auditory deprivation on this body-related process.

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“…13,14 Some individuals might prefer to experience a connection to their body over feeling nothing at all, 50 even if it takes the form of pain 15 (see also "Ian"-the case presented in 21 ). The body-brain disconnection might make people more vigilant in relation to their disembodied body, [51][52][53] thus leading people with SCI to take advantage of any residual sensation, including pain. In some instances, pain may be the only way to create body awareness and a protective body space, 54 which might help to define the space in which the body is located 55 a major neuroscientific constraint of body self-consciousness.…”

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<p>“My friend, the pain”: does altered body awareness affect the valence of pain descriptors?</p>

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Background: Pain is a marker of bodily status, that despite being aversive under most conditions, may also be perceived as a positive experience. However, how bodily states represent, define, and interpret pain signals, and how these processes might be reflected in common language, remains unclear. Methods: Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to explore the relationship between bodily awareness, pain reactions, and descriptions. A list of pain-related terms was generated from open-ended interviews with persons with spinal cord injury (SCI), and 138 participants (persons with SCI, health professionals, and a healthy control group) rated each descriptor as representative of pain on a gradated scale. A lexical decision task was used to test the strength of the automatic association of the word "pain" with positive and negative concepts. The behavioral results were related to body awareness, experience of pain, and exposure to pain, by comparing the three groups. Results: Higher positive and lower negative pain descriptors, as well as slower response times when categorizing pain as an unpleasant experience were found in the SCI group. The effect was not modulated by either the time since the injury or the present pain intensity, but it was linked to the level of subjective bodily awareness. Compared with the SCI group, health experts and non-experts both associated more quickly the word "pain" and unpleasant in the lexical decision task. However, while health professionals attributed positive linguistic qualities to pain, pain was exclusively associated with negative descriptors in healthy controls group. Conclusions: These findings are discussed in terms of their theoretical and clinical implications. An awareness of bodily signals prominently affects both the sensory and linguistic responses in persons with SCI. Pain should be evaluated more broadly to understand and, by extension, to manage, experiences beyond its adverse side.

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“…Hearing impairment disturbs the experience of the own body and body-related abilities. Body perception deficits may play an important role in the action performance and be the cause of many unexplained daily difficulties suffered by HI children [17]. …”

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Scoping Review of Systems to Train Psychomotor Skills in Hearing Impaired Children

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Manresa-Yee

Riquelme

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Objectives: The aim of this work is to provide a scoping review to compile and classify the systems helping train and enhance psychomotor skills in hearing impaired (HI) children. Methods: Based on an exhaustive review on psychomotor deficits in HI children, the procedure used to carry out a scoping review was: select keywords and identify synonyms, select databases and prepare the queries using keywords, analyze the quality of the works found using the PEDro Scale, classify the works based on psychomotor competences, analyze the interactive systems (e.g., sensors), and the achieved results. Results: Thirteen works were found. These works used a variety of sensors and input devices such as cameras, contact sensors, touch screens, mouse and keyboard, tangible objects, haptic and virtual reality (VR) devices. Conclusions: From the research it was possible to contextualize the deficits and psychomotor problems of HI children that prevent their normal development. Additionally, from the analysis of different proposals of interactive systems addressed to this population, it was possible to establish the current state of the use of different technologies and how they contribute to psychomotor rehabilitation.

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Body Perception and Action Following Deafness

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Deafness alters the spatial mapping of touch

Deafness alters the spatial mapping of touch

<p>“My friend, the pain”: does altered body awareness affect the valence of pain descriptors?</p>

Scoping Review of Systems to Train Psychomotor Skills in Hearing Impaired Children

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