D M L De Boer

A causal role for the right angular gyrus in self-location mediated perspective taking.

Scientific Reports November 5, 2020 D 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...