Out-of-place bodies, out-of-body selves

Salvatore M Aglioti; Matteo Candidi

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.04.006

Out-of-place bodies, out-of-body selves

Neuron. 2011 Apr 28;70(2):173-5. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.04.006.

Authors

Salvatore M Aglioti¹, Matteo Candidi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Psychology, University of Rome La Sapienza, and IRCCS, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy. salvatoremaria.aglioti@uniroma1.it

PMID: 21521606
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.04.006

Abstract

In this issue of Neuron, Ionta et al. (2011) combine behavioral and fMRI approaches with anatomical lesion data to show that illusory perception of one's own body from an external point of view or at a different physical location is linked to modulation of neural activity in the temporo-parietal-junction, a cortical region fundamental to body-consciousness.

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