Consciousness-Body-Time: How Do People Think Lacking Their Body?

Human Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 159-178

  Ataria, Yochai ^a   Neria, Yuval ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Altered states of consciousness; Disembodiment; Phenomenal body; Prisoner of war (POW); Sense of self; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876452586     PISSN: 01638548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10746-013-9263-3     Document Type: Article

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