We review the central tenets and neuroanatomical basis of the global neuronal workspace
(GNW) hypothesis, which attempts to account for the main scientific observations regarding …

Touch is the first of our senses to develop, providing us with the sensory scaffold on which
we come to perceive our own bodies and our sense of self. Touch also provides us with …

During infancy relational experiences of body-to-body exchanges (ie, embodied
interactions) contribute to the infant's bodily perception. Early embodied interactions are …

Researchers have examined representations of the body in the adult brain but relatively little
attention has been paid to ontogenetic aspects of neural body maps in human infants. Novel …

Neural reuse is a form of neuroplasticity whereby neural elements originally developed for
one purpose are put to multiple uses. A diverse behavioral repertoire is achieved by means …

Gender identity is a collection of thoughts and feelings about one's own gender, which may
or may not correspond to the sex assigned at birth. How this sense is linked to the …

The understanding of developing social brain functions during infancy relies on research
that has focused on studying how infants engage in first-person social interactions or view …

Recent research using the “rubber hand illusion” shows that the multisensory processes
underlying body representations are markedly different in children of 4 to 9 years and adults …

Interpersonal interaction is the essence of human social behavior. However, conventional
neuroimaging techniques have tended to focus on social cognition in single individuals …

How and when a concept of the 'self'emerges has been the topic of much interest in
developmental psychology. Self-awareness has been proposed to emerge at around 18 …