Abstract
Self-location refers to the experience of occupying a given position in the environment. Recent research has addressed the sense of self-location as one of the key components of self-consciousness, together with the experience of owning the physical body (ownership) (Blanke and Metzinger, Trends Cogn Sci 13:7–13 in 2009. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2008.10.003). Experimentally controlled full-body illusions proved to be valuable research tools to study these components and their interaction, and to explore their underlying neural underpinning. The focus of this manuscript is to provide a close look into the nuances of different illusory experiences affecting the sense of self-location and to examine their relation to the concurrent experienced sense of body ownership. On the basis of previous reviewed studies, it is proposed that the sense of self-location may be regarded as the blending of two paralllel representations: the abstract allocentric coding of the position occupied in the environment, mainly associated with visual-perspective, and the egocentric mapping of somatosensory sensations into the external space, mainly associated with peripersonal space. Open questions to be addressed by future research are further addressed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 309-312 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Cognitive Processing |
Volume | 16 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 29 2015 |
Keywords
- Body ownership
- Multisensory integration
- Self-location
- Spatial cognition
- Visual-perspective
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Artificial Intelligence