Bodily perception links memory and self: A case study of an amnesic patient.
Cortex October 2025 Nathalie H Meyer, Mariana Babo-Rebelo, Jevita Potheegadoo et al.
Episodic autobiographical memory (EAM) is a building block of self-consciousness, involving recollection and subjective re-experiencing of personal past experiences. Any life episode is originally encoded by a subject within a body. This raises the possibility that memory encoding is shaped by bodily self-consciousness (BSC), a basic form of self-consciousness arising from the multisensory and...
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2025.07.015 (opens in new tab)
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Amnesia
Bodily self-consciousness
Episodic memory
Hippocampal atrophy
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