自己受容感覚は非視覚的か : 変換視研究からの提言

抄録

Harris' proprioceptive change theory (1963, 1965, 1980) is not clear in the point which the term "proprioception" would contain the visual component or not. Sherrington, a neurophysiologist, used the term to classify the receptors based on their positions in the body. Emphasizing its functional aspect, J.J. Gibson gave it the meaning which contains visual characteristics. But this broadened terminology makes it impossible to estimate the Harris' theory. The present paper, therefore, focuses on the problem which the proprioception without any visual nature can represent the space or not. From the facts obtained in the visual transposition experiments and the close examination about the superiority of vision over other modalities and about the feature of the spatial perception of congenitally blinds, the following was concluded: The information from the proprioceptors alone could not represent spatial arrangements. It should be integrated in the "visual" space.