Body schema: does it depend on bodily-derived sensations?
Body image, as judged by estimation of lengths of parts of the body, was studied in 12 children with spina bifida who were matched for age, sex and IQ with 12 control children without spina bifida. With one exception, the estimations of the children with spina bifida did not differ significantly from those of the controls. The exception was that the children with spina bifida underestimated leg length less than the control children, but the authors believe that was a chance finding and that children with spina bifida develop an accurate representation of the body by means other than those depending on enteroceptive sensation.
D000293:Adolescent; D001828:Body Image; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012677:Sensation; D016136:Spina Bifida Occulta / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology