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Sharpening of peripersonal space during the COVID-19 pandemic

Our social world has been transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond the direct impact of the pandemic on physical health, the social distancing measures implemented worldwide to slow down disease transmission have dramatically impacted social interactions(1)(,)(2). These measures, including order...

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Autores principales: Serino, Silvia, Trabanelli, Sara, Jandus, Camilla, Fellrath, Julia, Grivaz, Petr, Paladino, Maria Paola, Serino, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8188303/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34314711
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.001
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author Serino, Silvia
Trabanelli, Sara
Jandus, Camilla
Fellrath, Julia
Grivaz, Petr
Paladino, Maria Paola
Serino, Andrea
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description Our social world has been transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond the direct impact of the pandemic on physical health, the social distancing measures implemented worldwide to slow down disease transmission have dramatically impacted social interactions(1)(,)(2). These measures, including orders to stay at home and to maintain a social distance of at least 2 meters, have been essential to limit the spread of the disease, but they have had severe costs for humans as social animals(2). Right before and right after the adoption of the most stringent measures in Switzerland in Spring 2020, we were conducting a series of experiments to measure the representation of the so-called peripersonal space — the space immediately surrounding our body, where we normally interact with objects and other individuals(3). We found that the introduction of social distancing measures led to a reduction in the extent of the peripersonal space and enhanced its segregation between individuals, as if the presence of others in close space would activate an implicit form of freezing response.
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spelling pubmed-81883032021-06-09 Sharpening of peripersonal space during the COVID-19 pandemic Serino, Silvia Trabanelli, Sara Jandus, Camilla Fellrath, Julia Grivaz, Petr Paladino, Maria Paola Serino, Andrea Curr Biol Correspondence Our social world has been transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond the direct impact of the pandemic on physical health, the social distancing measures implemented worldwide to slow down disease transmission have dramatically impacted social interactions(1)(,)(2). These measures, including orders to stay at home and to maintain a social distance of at least 2 meters, have been essential to limit the spread of the disease, but they have had severe costs for humans as social animals(2). Right before and right after the adoption of the most stringent measures in Switzerland in Spring 2020, we were conducting a series of experiments to measure the representation of the so-called peripersonal space — the space immediately surrounding our body, where we normally interact with objects and other individuals(3). We found that the introduction of social distancing measures led to a reduction in the extent of the peripersonal space and enhanced its segregation between individuals, as if the presence of others in close space would activate an implicit form of freezing response. Elsevier Inc. 2021-07-26 2021-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8188303/ /pubmed/34314711 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.001 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Paladino, Maria Paola
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.001
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