Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom.
Behav Brain Sci. 2012 Aug;35(4):229-30. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X11001907. Epub 2012 Jun 15.
Plasticity of body representation fundamentally underpins human tool use. Recent studies have demonstrated remarkably complex plasticity of body representation in humans, showing that such plasticity (1) occurs flexibly across multiple time scales and (2) involves multiple body representations responding differently to tool use. Such findings reveal remarkable sophistication of body plasticity in humans, suggesting that Vaesen may overestimate the similarity of such mechanisms in humans and non-human primates.
身体表征的可塑性从根本上支持了人类工具的使用。最近的研究表明，人类的身体表征具有惊人的复杂可塑性，表明这种可塑性 (1) 在多个时间尺度上灵活发生，并且 (2) 涉及多个身体表征对工具使用做出不同的反应。这些发现揭示了人类身体可塑性的显著复杂性，这表明 Vaesen 可能高估了人类和非人类灵长类动物中这些机制的相似性。
