Hallucinations, perceptions in the absence of objectively identifiable stimuli, illustrate the
constructive nature of perception. Here, we highlight the role of prior beliefs as a critical …

Recent work in human cognitive neuroscience has linked self-consciousness to the
processing of multisensory bodily signals (bodily self-consciousness [BSC]) in fronto-parietal …

Usually, we do not question that we possess a body and act upon the world. This pre-
reflective awareness of being a bodily and agentive self can, however, be disrupted by …

Our brain has developed a specific system to represent the space closely surrounding the
body, termed peripersonal space (PPS). This space has a key functional role as it is where …

In hypnotic responding, expectancies arising from imaginative suggestion drive striking
experiential changes (eg, hallucinations)—which are experienced as involuntary …

Our experience of the body is not direct; rather, it is mediated by perceptual information,
influenced by internal information, and recalibrated through stored implicit and explicit body …

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 virtual reality, the lack of kinesthetic feedback often prevents users from experiencing the
weight of virtual objects. Control-to-display (C/D) ratio manipulation has been proposed as a …

There is converging evidence that high doses of hallucinogenic drugs can produce
significant alterations of self-experience, described as the dissolution of the sense of self …

Adaptive body representation requires the continuous integration of multisensory inputs
within a flexible 'body model'in the brain. The present review evaluates the idea that this …