Neural Signatures of Body Ownership: A Sensory Network for Bodily Self-Consciousness
University College London · Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine · +4 more institutions
Abstract
Body ownership refers to the special perceptual status of one's own body, which makes bodily sensations seem unique to oneself. We studied the neural correlates of body ownership by controlling whether an external object was accepted as part of the body or not. In the rubber hand illusion (RHI), correlated visuotactile stimulation causes a fake hand to be perceived as part of one's own body. In the present study, we distinguished between the causes (i.e., multisensory stimulation) and the effect (i.e., the feeling of ownership) of the RHI. Participants watched a right or a left rubber hand being touched either synchronously or asynchronously with respect to their own unseen right hand. A quantifiable correlate…
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- 16.37
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- 100%
- References
- 39
Authors
5- MTManos TsakirisCorresponding
University College London, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
- MDMaike D. Hesse
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Universitätsklinikum Aachen, RWTH Aachen University
- CBChristian Boy
RWTH Aachen University, Universitätsklinikum Aachen
- PHPatrick Haggard
University College London
- GRGereon R. Fink
University Hospital Cologne, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Topics & keywords
- Insula
- Psychology
- Somatosensory system
- Illusion
- Perception
- Sensory system
- Proprioception
- Consciousness
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