Multisensory Origin of the Subjective First-Person Perspective: Visual, Tactile, and Vestibular Mechanisms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Pfeiffer, Christian ^a   Lopez, Christophe ^b   Schmutz, Valentin ^a   Duenas, Julio Angel ^c   Martuzzi, Roberto ^a   Blanke, Olaf ^a,d  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCED DIRECTION OF THE FIRST PERSON PERSPECTIVE; FEMALE; GRAVITY SENSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF IDENTIFICATION; SELF LOCATION; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TOUCH; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876423311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061751     Document Type: Article

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