Petkova Ehrsson Body Self Perception Image
<p>Jul 09, 2011 01:32 PM  Dynamite article... free and on-line
 
title =  Body self-perception
 
from page 50..
 
<b>Body self-perception  by Valeria Petkova and Henrik Ehrsson</b>
 
how we feel ownership of our limbs and our entire bodies,  
why we experience that we are "inside" our physical body,
and how the brain distinguishes btwn sensory signals
 from objects in the external world and from parts of the body.
 
impt applications... eg in building prosthetic limbs and simulated bodies in VR that feel just like real bodies.
 
Investigators of mechanisms and processes.
 
page 51
how we recog own bodies is SIGNIF first step for understanding SELF-AWARENESS more generally.
 
somatoparaphrenia... part of your body belongs to someone else!!!
 
asomatognosia  (what I used to call somatotopagnosia)  deficit in body awareness. 
  denying, disowning a body part).
last page...projection of ownership onto simulated bodies.
 
<b>Wm James.... the body is always there!!</b>!
rubber hand illusion... is it real  ... 2 objective tests:
1)  <b>point to the location of your real hand  and 2)  SCR  = GSR  skin conductance respons</b>e.
 
OUT-OF-BODY illusion...
 
VR study...   Illusory body  with head-mounted display.
fig 1 and fig 2;   NEW ARTIFICIAL  (rubber) BODY !!!
where one is located in space... determined by the 
<b>visual first-person perpective in combo with
correlated visual and tactile signals in body-centered reference frame</b>s.
 
page 52   (look at list of 4 properties below.... crucial!!)
 
<b>BODY-SWAPPING  ILLUSION... figure 2 </b> !!!
 
1)  to body swap... the object has to look sufficiently similar to a human body.
 
2)  <b>visual, tactile, proprioceptive signals must be temporally and spatially correlated
in coordinate systems centered on the body</b>.
 
3)  <b>when executing voluntary movements, the sensory feedback must MATCH
the expected sensory feedback from the intended movement</b>s.
 
4)  <b>The visual info from the FIRST-PERSON perspective
plays an important role in establishing the location of the
perceived body relative to environmental landmarks  and in defining the
ORIGIN of the body-centered reference frame</b>.
 
<b>The perception of one's body is thus CONTINUOUSLY CONSTRUCTED
on the basis of the available sensory evidence guided by these principles,
demonstrating a remarkable DYNAMIC NATURE of the BODY REPRESENTATION</b>.  jkjkj
 
 
<b>page 52  BRAIN AND NEURAL INVOLVEMENT</b>
 
  <b>neuronal substrates of body self-perception involve multisensory areas in the</b>
<b> frontal and parietal lobes that receive</b>
<b>convergent visual, tactile, and proprioceptive afferent input</b>s .  
 
<b>VENTRAL PREMOTOR CORTEX  and areas in the
INTRAPARIETAL CORTEX that integrate multisensory info in limb-centered reference frames
from the space near the body.</b> ...
 
page 53
 
<b>Likely that ownership of entire bodies involves similar multisensory mechanisms
perhaps with the addition of spatial processing in the
RIGHT INFERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX related to the ID of
WHERE THE BODY IS LOCATED in the environment.  (</b>!!!)s
 
this is a <b>MAJOR ADVANCE in study of body awareness and self-consciousness!!!</b>
 
new clinical and industrial applications:  eg  enhance the feeling of ownership of artificial limbs used by amputees.
 
and <b>project ownership onto simulated bodies.</b>..  enhance realism and feeling of PRESENCE.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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