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NEURON
Volume 88, Issue 1, Pages 145-166Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.029
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- Swiss National Science Foundation
- European Science Foundation (EU FP7 FET Integrated Project VERE) [257695]
- FP7 (Human Brain Project) [604102]
- Bertarelli Foundation
- EU FP7 FET Integrated Project VERE [257695]
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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Recent work in human cognitive neuroscience has linked self-consciousness to the processing of multisensory bodily signals (bodily self-consciousness [BSC]) in fronto-parietal cortex and more posterior temporoparietal regions. We highlight the behavioral, neurophysiological, neuroimaging, and computational laws that subtend BSC in humans and non-human primates. We propose that BSC includes body-centered perception (hand, face, and trunk), based on the integration of proprioceptive, vestibular, and visual bodily inputs, and involves spatio-temporal mechanisms integrating multisensory bodily stimuli within peripersonal space (PPS). We develop four major constraints of BSC (proprioception, body-related visual information, PPS, and embodiment) and argue that the fronto-parietal and temporo-parietal processing of trunk-centered multisensory signals in PPS is of particular relevance for theoretical models and simulations of BSC and eventually of self-consciousness.
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