Bodies in the brain. More than the weighted sum of their parts.
Doctoral thesis, UNSPECIFIED.
The main question of this thesis is: Can we dissociate multiple body representations in the healthy brain? Patient studies have already shown a dichotomy between the perceptual body representation used for localizing a body part (body image) versus the motoric body representation used for moving a body part (body schema). In a total of 9 chapters possible task dependency of several bodily illusions is investigated. In the first chapters it is shown for the first time that there is indeed a perception-action task dependency of bodily illusions, which is thought to be based on dissociable underlying body representations. However, this main line of reasoning becomes problematic when significant different responses within the same type of task are identified. The risk of dissociating innumerable body representations that this line of reasoning runs are discussed in the last chapters. Finally, a more dynamic angle for investigating dissociable body representations in the healthy brain is suggested, focusing on the question of how these different body representations are created and interact, therefore looking more closely into the weighting of sensory information.
|Title:||Bodies in the brain. More than the weighted sum of their parts|
|Keywords:||Body representations, action, perception, feeling of agency, feeling of ownership, multimodal integration, bayesian modelling, rubber hand illusion, bodily illusion|
|UCL classification:||UCL > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Psychology and Language Sciences (Division of) > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
UCL > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
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