In recent decades, advances in analytical chemistry and the development of sampling and measurement techniques in different geochemical spheres have significantly increased the amount and kinds of available data. However, to optimise their usefulness, geochemical data must be reproducible and reusable, and collection and analysis methodologies must be transparent. At the European level, the need for a comprehensive conceptual...

Peripersonal space (PPS) is a construct referring to the portion of space immediately surrounding our bodies, where most of the interactions between the subject and the environment, including other individuals, take place. Decades of animal and human neuroscience research have revealed that the brain holds a separate representation of this region of space: this distinct spatial representation has evolved to ensure proper relev...