Multisensory mechanisms in temporo-parietal cortex support self-location and first-person perspective.
Neuron April 28, 2011 Silvio Ionta, Lukas Heydrich, Bigna Lenggenhager et al.
Self-consciousness has mostly been approached by philosophical enquiry and not by empirical neuroscientific study, leading to an overabundance of diverging theories and an absence of data-driven theories. Using robotic technology, we achieved specific bodily conflicts and induced predictable changes in a fundamental aspect of self-consciousness by altering where healthy subjects experienced...