Bodily ownership and self-location: components of bodily self-consciousness
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Recent research on bodily self-consciousness has assumed that it consists of three distinct components: the experience of owning a body (body ownership); the experience of being a body with a given location within the environment (self-location); and the experience of taking a first-person, body-centered, perspective on that environment (perspective). Here we review recent neuroimaging studies suggesting that at least two of these components—body ownership and self-location—are implemented in rather distinct neural substrates, located, respectively, in the premotor cortex and in the temporo-parietal junction. We examine these results and consider them in relation to clinical evidence from patients with altered body perception and work on a variety of multisensory, body-related illusions, such as the rubber hand illusion, the full body illusion, the body swap illusion and the enfacement illusion. We conclude by providing a preliminary synthesis of the data on bodily self-consciousness and its neural correlates.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Consciousness and Cognition |
Volume | 22 |
Issue number | 4 |
Pages (from-to) | 1239-1252 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISSN | 1053-8100 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2013 |
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