Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America December 9, 2025 Renzo C Lanfranco, Sucharit Katyal, August Hägerdal et al.
Conscious awareness refers to the subjective experience of perceiving, thinking, and feeling and the ability to report these experiences. These perceptions and thoughts are experienced as bound to an individual self. A fundamental aspect of this self-consciousness is the sense of bodily self-the experience of one's physical presence distinct from the external world, serving as the spatial...