How is conscious experience related to material brain processes? A variety of theories
aiming to answer this age-old question have emerged from the recent surge in …

The continuous stream of multisensory information between the brain and the body during
body–environment interactions is crucial to maintain the updated representation of the …

During the rubber hand illusion (RHI), the synchronous stroking of the participants'
concealed hand and a visible rubber hand induces a conflict among visuo-tactile inputs …

Although clinical neuroscience and the neuroscience of consciousness have long sought
mechanistic explanations of tactile-awareness disorders, mechanistic insights are rare …

The brain mechanisms underlying the emergence of a normal sense of body ownership can
be investigated starting from pathological conditions in which body awareness is selectively …

In the last decade, a considerable amount of studies investigated different
neuropsychological syndromes related to the disorder of body awareness. In this paper, we …

Recently, a monothematic delusion of body ownership due to brain damage (ie, the
embodiment of someone else's body part within the patient's sensorimotor system) has been …

The present Research Topic investigates the relationship between sensory perception,
multisensory integration, and bodily self representation. Here, the collected seven novel …

The ability to discriminate between one's own and others' body parts can be lost after brain
damage, as in patients who misidentify someone else's hand as their own (pathological …

Combining information from multiple senses enhances our perception of the world. Whether
we need to be aware of all stimuli to benefit from multisensory integration, however, is still …