Recent research on bodily self-consciousness has assumed that it consists of three distinct
components: the experience of owning a body (body ownership); the experience of being a
body with a given location within the environment (self-location); and the experience of
taking a first-person, body-centered, perspective on that environment (perspective). Here we
review recent neuroimaging studies suggesting that at least two of these components—body
ownership and self-location—are implemented in rather distinct neural substrates, located …