Scientific ReportsNovember 5, 2020D M L De Boer, Patrick Johnston, Graham Kerr et al.
Recent theories suggest that self-consciousness, in its most elementary form, is functionally disconnected from the phenomenal body. Patients with psychosis frequently misattribute their thoughts and actions to external sources; and in certain out-of-body experiences, lucid states, and dreams body-ownership is absent but self-identification is preserved. To explain these unusual experiences, we...
PsyArXivAugust 19, 2020Debbie Margaretha Louisa De Boer, Patrick Johnston, Graham Kerr et al.
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Recent theories suggest that self-consciousness, in its most elementary form, is separate from the own body. Patients with psychosis frequently misattribute their thoughts and actions to external sources; and in certain out-of-body experiences, lucid states, and dreams body-ownership is absent but self-identification is preserved. We hypothesized that self-identification depends on inferring...
Debbie Margaretha Louisa De Boer, Patrick Johnston, Farhang Namdar et al.
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How does the brain distinguish between the signals it produces and the sensations it registers from the environment? To shed light on this, it was investigated if the human mind could be capable of perceiving an avatar’s body in a third person game as one’s own. To create precise, high-quality motion simulations, we uniquely combined a Virtual Reality-setup (Valve Index) with real-time motion...