It has been argued that hallucinations which appear to involve shifts in egocentric perspective (e.g., the out-of-body experience, OBE) reflect specific biases in exocentric perspective-taking processes. Via a newly devised perspective-taking task, we examined whether such biases in perspective-taking were present in relation to specific dissociative anomalous body experiences (ABE) - namely th...

Substantial data from the cognitive neurosciences point to the importance of bodily processing for the development of a comprehensive theory of the self. A key aspect of the bodily self is self-location, the experience that the self is localized at a specific position in space within one's bodily borders (embodied self-location). Although the neural mechanisms of self-location have been studied...

Abstract This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation destruction in order to distinguish alternative effects embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a two-sector economy. Disembodied turns out positively affect employment dynamics “upstream” sectors, while expansionary investment does so “downstream” industries. However, th...

According to the prevailing clinical model of Internet addiction disorder, symptoms are not substantially different from ones other previously known behavioral and chemical addictions. In present article we argue that this significantly depsycholizes phenomenon which stems mass use information technologies providing access cyberspace. We compare psychological characteristics disembodiment, is, ...

Although people can take spatial perspectives different from their own, it is widely assumed that egocentric perspectives are natural and have primacy. Two studies asked respondents to describe the spatial relations between two objects on a table in photographed scenes; in some versions, a person sitting behind the objects was either looking at or reaching for one of the objects. The mere prese...