Our experience of the body is not direct; rather, it is mediated by perceptual information,
influenced by internal information, and recalibrated through stored implicit and explicit body …

Our body is a unique entity by which we interact with the external world. Consequently, the
way we represent our body has profound implications in the way we process and locate …

Blind individuals have superior abilities to perform perceptual tasks that rely on
exteroceptive information, since visual deprivation is associated with heightened cross …

The perception of one's own body depends on the dynamic integration of signals from
different sensory modalities. Earlier studies have shown that visual, tactile, and …

When we perform an action, self-elicited movement induces suppression of somatosensory
information to the cortex, requiring a correct motor-sensory and inter-sensory (ie cutaneous …

Recent research suggests visuo-tactile binding is temporally extended in autism spectrum
disorders (ASD), although it is not clear whether this specifically underlies altered body …

Bodily illusions are changes in immediate awareness of one's body that do not correspond
to the body's veridical state. They offer a unique tool for investigating the perceptual …

In this study we investigated, both in childhood and adulthood, the role of action in
promoting and shaping the sense of body ownership, which is traditionally viewed as …

Recent studies have shown that body-representations can be altered by dynamic changes
in sound. In the so-called “auditory Pinocchio illusion” participants feel their finger to be …

In this study, we investigated the contribution of tactile and proprioceptive cues to the
development of the sense of body ownership by testing the susceptibility of 4-to 5-year-old …