Behavioral, neural, and computational principles of bodily self-consciousness

O Blanke, M Slater, A Serino - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Recent work in human cognitive neuroscience has linked self-consciousness to the
processing of multisensory bodily signals (bodily self-consciousness [BSC]) in fronto-parietal …

The senses of agency and ownership: a review

N Braun, S Debener, N Spychala, E Bongartz… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Usually, we do not question that we possess a body and act upon the world. This pre-
reflective awareness of being a bodily and agentive self can, however, be disrupted by …

Why and how to use virtual reality to study human social interaction: The challenges of exploring a new research landscape

X Pan, AFC Hamilton - British Journal of Psychology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
As virtual reality (VR) technology and systems become more commercially available and
accessible, more and more psychologists are starting to integrate VR as part of their …

Mentalizing homeostasis: The social origins of interoceptive inference

A Fotopoulou, M Tsakiris - Neuropsychoanalysis, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Is the self already relational in its very bodily foundations? The question of whether our
mental life is initially and primarily shaped by embodied dimensions of the individual or by …

The multisensory basis of the self: From body to identity to others

M Tsakiris - Quarterly journal of experimental psychology, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
By grounding the self in the body, experimental psychology has taken the body as the
starting point for a science of the self. One fundamental dimension of the bodily self is the …

The sense of embodiment in virtual reality

K Kilteni, R Groten, M Slater - Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual …, 2012 - direct.mit.edu
What does it feel like to own, to control, and to be inside a body? The multidimensional
nature of this experience together with the continuous presence of one's biological body …

Multisensory brain mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness

O Blanke - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
Recent research has linked bodily self-consciousness to the processing and integration of
multisensory bodily signals in temporoparietal, premotor, posterior parietal and extrastriate …

Peripersonal space (PPS) as a multisensory interface between the individual and the environment, defining the space of the self

A Serino - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Our brain has developed a specific system to represent the space closely surrounding the
body, termed peripersonal space (PPS). This space has a key functional role as it is where …

Changing bodies changes minds: owning another body affects social cognition

L Maister, M Slater, MV Sanchez-Vives… - Trends in cognitive …, 2015 - cell.com
Research on stereotypes demonstrates how existing prejudice affects the way we process
outgroups. Recent studies have considered whether it is possible to change our implicit …

Linking bodily, environmental and mental states in the self—A three-level model based on a meta-analysis

P Qin, M Wang, G Northoff - Neuroscience & biobehavioral reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Current researchers mostly agree that the self consists of both bodily and non-bodily
environmental information. The neural mechanism underlying the integration of this …