Bodily Matters

Bodily pleasure matters: velocity of touch modulates body ownership during the rubber hand illusion

The sense of body ownership represents a fundamental aspect of our self-consciousness. Influential experimental paradigms, such as the rubber hand illusion (RHI), in which a seen rubber hand is experienced as part of one's body when one's own unseen hand receives congruent tactile stimulation, have extensively examined the role of exteroceptive, multisensory integration on body ownership. Howev...

Bodily Deformities

This covers a series of lectures delivered by the late Mr. Chance in the j^ear 1852 and subsequently at the City Orthopaedic Hospital, including many illustrations drawn by the late author "on the wood" from casts of cases, and brought up to date by the editor. It is written in a pleasant scientific style, and we note quotations from the late Dr. J. C. Prichard, of Bristol, on Researches into t...

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 ...

The Intimate Connexion: Bodily Awareness and Bodily Agency

Bodily immunity to error *

Self-ascription of a property is said to be immune to error through misidentification relative to the first-person if and only if one cannot be mistaken about the person who instantiates the property when one has gained information about the property in the appropriate way (although one can be mistaken about the property one ascribes to oneself) (Evans, 1982). For instance, if I think that I am...