A significant body of experimental evidence has demonstrated that it is possible to induce
the illusion of ownership of a fake limb or even an entire fake body using multisensory …

Empirical research on the bodily self has only recently started to investigate how the link
between a body and the experience of this body as mine is developed, maintained or …

The concept of the metaverse was first coined in the science fiction novel Snow Crash
published 30 years ago, serving as the pregenesis concept of the next groundbreaking …

This article addresses basic aspects of social cognition focusing on the pivotal role played
by the lived body in the constitution of our experience of others. It is suggested that before …

What is it like to have a body? The present study takes a psychometric approach to this
question. We collected structured introspective reports of the rubber hand illusion, to …

Body ownership refers to the perceptual experience of a body or body part as one's own.
Integration of signals from different sensory modalities is considered to play a central role in …

In The Unity of Consciousness Tim Bayne draws on philosophy, psychology, and
neuroscience in defence of the claim that consciousness is unified. In the first part of the …

The neural circuits underlying initial sensory processing of somatic information are relatively
well understood. In contrast, the processes that go beyond primary somatosensation to …

The commentaries have raised important points regarding different aspects of our model.
Some have queried the nature of the proposed dissociations, whereas others have …

How do we come to feel that we own our body? What is the relationship between our body
and our sense of self? Questions like these have been discussed in philosophy and …