Henry Head and Gordon Holmes · 1911
Sensory Disturbances from Cerebral Lesions
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- Ben Breen, 2026-09-29; suggested by Claude research agents, 29 Sep 2026
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Should tools used to perform bodily functions be understood as parts of the human body?Yes. Anything that takes part in the conscious movement of the body is added to the body schema; a woman's sense of location may extend to the feather in her hat.
It is to the existence of these "schemata" that we owe the power of projecting our recognition of posture, movement and locality beyond the limits of our own bodies to the end of some instrument held in the hand. Without them we could not probe with a stick, nor use a spoon unless our eyes were fixed upon the plate. Anything which participates in the conscious movement of our bodies is added to the model of ourselves and becomes part of these schemata; a woman's power of localisation may extend to the feather in her hat.
OCR corrected
Brain 34 (1911): 102-254, Oxford Academic record and Zenodo record; feather quotation from Wikipedia 'Body schema' and Vallar 2025 review.