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Body Scheme Gates Visual Processing

¹Department of Neurology, University Hospital Düsseldorf, 40225 Düsseldorf; ²Godeshoehe Neurological Rehabilitation Centre, 53177 Bonn; and ³Biomedical Research Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany

Submitted 24 September 2003; accepted in final form 5 December 2003

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore how guidance of motor acts is influenced by the visually perceived body scheme. We found that when subjects view their hand as their opposite hand, i.e., the right hand is seen as the left hand and vice versa, activation in the visual cortex was lateralized opposite to the seen hand. This demonstrates for the first time that our body scheme to which vision relates our environment is already represented at the level of visual cortex.