Functional and neural mechanisms of embodiment: importance of the vestibular system and the temporal parietal junction

B Lenggenhager; Stuart T Smith; O Blanke

doi:10.1515/REVNEURO.2006.17.6.643

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Functional and neural mechanisms of embodiment: importance of the vestibular system and the temporal parietal junction

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Functional and neural mechanisms of embodiment: importance of the vestibular system and the temporal parietal junction

B Lenggenhager, Stuart T Smith and O Blanke

Reviews in the Neurosciences, Vol.17(6), pp.643-657

2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/REVNEURO.2006.17.6.643

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Neurosciences

Cognitive Sciences

Psychology

embodiment

self

body

temporo-parietal junction

autoscopic phenomena

vestibular processes

Embodiment, the sense of being localized within one's physical body, is a fundamental aspect of the self. Recent research shows that self and body processing as well as embodiment require distinct brain mechanisms. Here, we review recent clinical and neuroimaging research on multisensory perception and integration as well as mental imagery, pointing out their importance for the coding of embodiment at the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ). Special reference is given to vestibular mechanisms that are relevant for self and embodiment and to methods that interfere experimentally with normal embodiment. We conclude that multisensory and vestibular coding at the TPJ mediates humans' experience as being embodied and spatially situated, and argue that pathologies concerning the disembodied self, such as out-ofbody experience or other autoscopic phenomena, are due to deficient multisensory integration at the TPJ.

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Title: Functional and neural mechanisms of embodiment: importance of the vestibular system and the temporal parietal junction
Authors: B Lenggenhager (Author) - Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Switzerland
Stuart T Smith (Author) - Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Switzerland
O Blanke (Author) - Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Switzerland
Publication details: Reviews in the Neurosciences, Vol.17(6), pp.643-657
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
Date published: 2006
DOI: 10.1515/REVNEURO.2006.17.6.643
ISSN: 0334-1763
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449308302621
Output Type: Journal article

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