title: Bodily ownership and self-location: components of bodily self-consciousness.
abstract: 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 suggesting that at least two of these components-body ownership and self-location-are implemented in rather distinct neural substrates, located, respectively, in the premotor cortex and in the temporo-parietal junction. We examine these results and consider them in relation to clinical evidence from patients with altered body perception and work on a variety of multisensory, body-related illusions, such as the rubber hand illusion, the full body illusion, the body swap illusion and the enfacement illusion. We conclude by providing a preliminary synthesis of the data on bodily self-consciousness and its neural correlates.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Center for Neuroprosthetics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Psychology, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy. Electronic address: andrea.serino@epfl.ch.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Serino
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alsmith
authors.forename: Marcello
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Costantini
authors.forename: Alisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mandrigin
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tajadura-Jimenez
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lopez
mesh_terms: D001828:Body Image; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions / Q000502:physiology; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D011434:Proprioception / Q000502:physiology; D012649:Self Concept; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Bodily self-consciousness; Body ownership; Body representation; Multisensory processing; Self-location