Mind the Body: An Exploration of Bodily Self-AwarenessOur own body seems to be the object that we know the best for we constantly receive a flow of internal information about it. Yet bodily awareness has attracted little attention in the literature. Mind the Body is the first comprehensive treatment of bodily awareness. Frédérique de Vignemont seeks to answer questions such as: how do I perceive my body? How do I perceive other people's bodies? Can I really feel your pain? What makes me feel this specific body is my own? Why do I care about it? To what extent can I feel an avatar's body as my own? To answer these questions, we need a better understanding of the various aspects of bodily self-awareness, including the spatiality of bodily sensations, their multimodality, their role in social cognition, their relation to action, and to self-defence. This volume combines philosophical analysis with recent experimental results from cognitive science, leading us to question some of our most basic intuitions. |
Contents
| 1 | |
PART I Body Snatchers | 11 |
Whose Body? | 13 |
Over and Above Bodily Sensations | 32 |
The Immunity of the Sense of Ownership | 49 |
PART II BodyBuilder | 65 |
Bodily Space | 67 |
The Body Map Theory | 83 |
Taxonomies of Body Representations | 140 |
PART III Bodyguard | 165 |
The Bodyguard Hypothesis | 167 |
The Narcissistic Body | 189 |
Bodily Illusions | 207 |
Neurological and Psychiatric Bodily Disorders | 212 |
References | 217 |
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action affective alien amputees anosognosia argue Bermúdez bodily awareness bodily experiences bodily IEM bodily know-how bodily location bodily ownership bodily PPRs bodily sensations body as one's body image body schema bodyguard hypothesis brain Chapter cognitive Cognitive Sciences conception cortex Coslett disownership dissociation egocentric location Ehrsson embodied feel sensations feel touch felt first-person function Gallagher Gallese hot body map instance interoception involves judgement legs mirror neurons motor move movements multimodal multisensory binding multisensory integration Neuroscience notion object one’s one's body one's hand one's own body pain insensitivity participants perceptual experiences peripersonal space phantom limbs phenomenology phenomenology of ownership Pinocchio illusion PPRs properties proprioceptive protective body map referred sensations report feeling represented right hand role rubber hand illusion self-specific sense of bodily sense of ownership sensorimotor somatoparaphrenia somatosensory sortal spatial content specific stimuli stroked suffice syndrome tactile tactile sensations tool types of body Vignemont vision visual experiences visual information