Where exactly am I? Self-location judgements distribute between head and torso

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 70-74

  Alsmith, Adrian J T ^a   Longo, Matthew R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experimental philosophy; Intuitions; Multimodal perception; Self consciousness; Self location; Spatial perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTUITION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; POINTING; SELF CONCEPT; SELF LOCATION; TRUNK; YOUNG ADULT; BODY IMAGE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TORSO; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892865124     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.12.005     Document Type: Article

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