"Personal Space" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Invisible boundaries surrounding the individual's body which are maintained in relation to others.
Concept/Terms
Personal Space- Personal Space
- Personal Spaces
- Space, Personal
- Spaces, Personal
- Privacy of Space
- Space Privacy
- Body Buffer Zone
- Body Buffer Zones
- Buffer Zone, Body
- Buffer Zones, Body
- Zone, Body Buffer
- Zones, Body Buffer
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Personal Space".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Personal Space".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Personal Space" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Personal Space" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Personal Space" by people in Profiles.
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Interdigitated Columnar Representation of Personal Space and Visual Space in Human Parietal Cortex. J Neurosci. 2022 Nov 30; 42(48):9011-9029.
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Psychological and physiological evidence for an initial 'Rough Sketch' calculation of personal space. Sci Rep. 2021 10 25; 11(1):20960.
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Anxious attachment is associated with heightened responsivity of a parietofrontal cortical network that monitors peri-personal space. Neuroimage Clin. 2021; 30:102585.
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Abnormalities in personal space and parietal-frontal function in schizophrenia. Neuroimage Clin. 2015; 9:233-43.
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Shelter crowding and increased incidence of acute respiratory infection in evacuees following the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and tsunami. Epidemiol Infect. 2016 Mar; 144(4):787-95.
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Neural correlates of personal space intrusion. J Neurosci. 2014 Mar 19; 34(12):4123-34.
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Spatial biases in peripersonal space in sighted and blind individuals revealed by a haptic line bisection paradigm. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2011 Aug; 37(4):1110-21.
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Creating a place for caregivers in personal health: the iHealthSpace copilot program and diabetes care. J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2011 Jan 01; 5(1):39-46.
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Mirror neurons differentially encode the peripersonal and extrapersonal space of monkeys. Science. 2009 Apr 17; 324(5925):403-6.
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This couldn't happen to me: boundary problems and sexual misconduct in the psychotherapy relationship. Psychiatr Serv. 2003 Apr; 54(4):517-22.