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| ArticleTitle | Summary of the special lecture by professor Olaf Blanke: The cognitive neuroscience of bodily self-consciousness |
| Language | J |
| AuthorList | Toshio Inui1), Hiroshi Shibata1), Kenji Ogawa2) |
| Affiliation |
1)Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University 2)JST Asada Synergistic Intelligence Project |
| Publication | Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 27 (1), 19-25, 2011 |
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| Abstract | We summarized the special lecture by Professor Olaf Blanke. In his lecture, neuropsychological and neuroimaging evidence on the neural correlates of bodily self-consciousness, which focused on our daily "inside-body" experience, were discussed. (1) Pathological states of self location and the first-person perspective (such as out-of-body experiences and autoscopic hallucinations) due to disturbed multisensory integration after focal brain damage. (2) The experimental manipulation of bodily self-location and first-person perspective in healthy subjects using multisensory visuo-tactile conflict, virtual reality, and neuroimaging data. These neuropsychological and neuroimaging data suggest that activity in three brain regions-temporo-parietal cortex, extrastriate cortex, and medial prefrontal cortex-reflects self-location and the first-person perspective: the conscious experience that one's center of awareness is localized within one's bodily borders. |
| Keywords | bodily self, out-of-body experience, autoscopy, rubber hand illusion, vertual reality |
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