Unconscious integration of multisensory bodily inputs in the peripersonal space shapes bodily self-consciousness.
Cognition September 2017 Roy Salomon, Jean-Paul Noel, Marta Łukowska et al.
Recent studies have highlighted the role of multisensory integration as a key mechanism of self-consciousness. In particular, integration of bodily signals within the peripersonal space (PPS) underlies the experience of the self in a body we own (self-identification) and that is experienced as occupying a specific location in space (self-location), two main components of bodily...
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.05.028 (opens in new tab)
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Bodily self-consciousness
Continuous flash suppression
Multisensory integration
Peripersonal space
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