Philippe A. Chouinard

Evaluating Bodily Self-Consciousness and the Brain Using Multisensory Perturbation and fMRI

Multisensory Research 2017 Philippe A. Chouinard, Joshua A. Sherman, Amy Siobhan Millard et al.

In this article, we consider the usefulness of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and perturbation in evaluating causal relationships between bodily self-consciousness and the brain. We argue that fMRI research is not always restricted to correlational statements when it is combined with perturbation techniques and can sometimes permit some degree of causal inferencing, such as when...