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Bodily self-consciousness and its disorders.
Journal article

Bodily self-consciousness and its disorders.

  • Ronchi R Center for Neuroprosthetics, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain-Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: roberta.ronchi@epfl.ch.
  • Park HD Center for Neuroprosthetics, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain-Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Blanke O Center for Neuroprosthetics, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain-Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Neurology, University Hospital Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • 2018-03-10
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  • Handbook of clinical neurology. - 2018
and first-person perspective
bodily self-consciousness
disownership
doubles
exteroceptive and interoceptive processing
multisensory perception
posterior parietal cortex
self-identification
self-location
temporoparietal junction
Animals
Body Image
Humans
Parietal Lobe
Perceptual Disorders
English Research in clinical and human neuroscience indicates that important brain mechanisms of self-consciousness are based on the integration of multisensory bodily signals (i.e., bodily self-consciousness: BSC), including signals coming from outside our body (i.e., exteroceptive signals, such as tactile, auditory, and visual information) and the inside of our body (i.e., interoceptive signals). In this chapter, we discuss selected behavioral and neuroimaging studies about how multisensory integration generates and modulates BSC in humans, with particular relevance to parietal mechanisms. We then review the neurology of disorders of BSC after acquired brain damage or dysfunction, ranging from body attentional disorders to delusional and illusory deficits about the patient's own body, associated with a breakdown of the link between the body and the self.
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