Neuroscience of Bodily Self-Consciousness
Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) August 1, 2011 Olaf Blanke, Estelle Paluelle, Christian Pfeiffer
We review recent research about human subjectivity and self-consciousness that has focused on cognitive psychology and neuroimaging of bodily self-consciousness. Multidisciplinary research on the fields of neurology, cognitive neuroscience and virtual reality opens new avenues to investigate brain mechanisms underlying a fundamental sense of the bodily self. Clinical evidence for the...