Bodily Awareness and Its Subject

The Intimate Connexion: Bodily Awareness and Bodily Agency

Plasticity and Awareness of Bodily Distortion

Knowledge of the body is filtered by perceptual information, recalibrated through predominantly innate stored information, and neurally mediated by direct sensory motor information. Despite multiple sources, the immediate prediction, construction, and evaluation of one's body are distorted. The origins of such distortions are unclear. In this review, we consider three possible sources of awaren...

Bodily awareness: an exploration in critical design

There exists a routine in most people’s lives wherein they wake, work, and sleep with few activities in between those main moments. During this routine, typical behaviors occur wherein the participants are completely numb to the activities that they are completing each day, they are so used to doing them that they no longer are aware of their movements. Work and everyday life is so typical that...

Measuring dimensions of body connection: body awareness and bodily dissociation.

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to test the preliminary psychometric properties of the Scale of Body Connection (SBC), a 20-item self-report measure, designed to assess body awareness and bodily dissociation in mind-body intervention research. METHODS The SBC items were based on common expressions of awareness in body therapy. Content validity was established by a panel of experts. The validity an...

Fear Modulates Visual Awareness Similarly for Facial and Bodily Expressions

BACKGROUND Social interaction depends on a multitude of signals carrying information about the emotional state of others. But the relative importance of facial and bodily signals is still poorly understood. Past research has focused on the perception of facial expressions while perception of whole body signals has only been studied recently. In order to better understand the relative contributi...