On agency and body-ownership: Phenomenological and neurocognitive reflections

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 645-660

  Tsakiris, Manos ^a   Schütz Bosbach, Simone ^b   Gallagher, Shaun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; Agency; Body ownership; Phenomenology; Self awareness; Sensory motor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY REGIONS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; INSULA; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; PHENOMENOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; RECOGNITION; SELF CONCEPT; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION;

AWARENESS; BODY IMAGE; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; KINESTHESIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 34848893295     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.05.012     Document Type: Article

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