Testosterone administration in women increases the size of their peripersonal space

Peripersonal space (PPS) is the immediately surrounding body, conceptualised as a sensory-motor interface between body and environment. PPS size differs individuals contexts, with intrapersonal traits states, well social factors having determining role on of PPS. Testosterone plays an important in regulating social-motivational behaviour known to enhance dominance motivation implicit unconscious manner. We investigated whether dominance-enhancing effects testosterone reflect changes representation within-subjects administration study women (N = 19). Participants performed visuo-tactile integration task mixed-reality setup. Results indicated that caused significant enlargement participants’ PPS, suggesting participants implicitly appropriate larger their own. These findings suggest at level processing