Sense of Body

After brain damage, patients can experience the lack of ownership of body parts. By exploiting a large dataset and state-of-the-art analyses, Cataldo et al. demonstrate that subtle forms of disownership are undetected post-stroke, and suggest the role of complex bilateral brain networks in the construction of body awareness in humans

Neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies suggest distinct body representations involved in coding one’s and others’ body. …

When looking to our reflection, or moving a video-game character, we see our own movement preformed by an agent which is physically …