Bodily individuation, bodily relationality – Scheler’s phenomenology of the body and infant research

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...

The Intimate Connexion: Bodily Awareness and Bodily Agency

Bodily Systems and the Modular Structure of the Human Body

Medical science conceives the human body as a system comprised of many subsystems at a variety of levels. At the highest level are bodily systems proper, such as the endocrine system, which are central to our understanding of human anatomy, and play a key role in diagnosis and in dynamic modeling as well as in medical pedagogy and computer visualization. But there is no explicit definition of w...

Bodily Relativity: The body-specificity of language and thought

Do people with different kinds of bodies think differently? According to the body-specificity hypothesis (Casasanto 2009), they should. In this paper, I review evidence that rightand left-handers, who perform actions in systematically different ways, use correspondingly different areas of the brain for imagining actions and representing the meanings of action verbs. Beyond the concrete domain o...

Bodily ownership and self-location: components of bodily self-consciousness.

Recent research on bodily self-consciousness has assumed that it consists of three distinct components: the experience of owning a body (body ownership); the experience of being a body with a given location within the environment (self-location); and the experience of taking a first-person, body-centered, perspective on that environment (perspective). Here we review recent neuroimaging studies ...