Processing of proprioceptive and vestibular body signals and self-transcendence in Ashtanga yoga practitioners
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience September 22, 2014 Francesca eFiori, Nicole eDavid, Salvatore Maria Aglioti
In the rod and frame test (RFT), participants are asked to set a tilted visual linear marker (i.e. a rod), embedded in a square, to the subjective vertical, irrespective of the surrounding frame. People not influenced by the frame tilt are defined as field-independent, while people biased in their rod verticality perception are field-dependent. Performing RFT requires the integration of...