This study is focused on the novel concept of the origin or seat of the attentional spotlight, the bodily location at which the attended information is felt to impinge. Existing research on the seat of attention, also described as self-location or egocenter, shows that it can be situated in various ways within the experienced body space (Hanley et al., 2020), and that differences in its...
This study provides evidence supporting the operation of a novel cognitive process of a somatic seat of attention, or ego-center, whose somatic location is under voluntary control and that provides access to differential emotional resources. Attention has typically been studied in terms of what it is directed toward, but it can also be associated with a localized representation in the body...