This is a review of the proprioceptive senses generated as a result of our own actions. They
include the senses of position and movement of our limbs and trunk, the sense of effort, the …

Corporeal awareness is a difficult concept which refers to perception, knowledge and
evaluation of one's own body as well as of other bodies. We discuss here some …

Interoception, the sense of the physiological condition of the body originating from within its
internal organs, and body image, namely the perception, feelings and attitudes one has …

Recent studies of monkeys and humans have identified several brain regions that respond
to bodies. Researchers have so far mainly addressed the same questions about bodies and …

Recent discoveries on the organisation of the cortical connectome together with novel data
on the dynamics of neuronal interactions require an extension of classical concepts on …

Background Body image distortion is a central symptom of Anorexia Nervosa (AN). Even if
corporeal awareness is multisensory majority of AN studies mainly investigated visual …

Face, hands, and body movements are powerful signals essential for social interactions. In
the last 2 decades, a large number of brain imaging studies have explored the neural …

Survival prompts organisms to prepare adaptive behavior in response to environmental and
social threat. However, what are the specific features of the appearance of a conspecific that …

Body image distortion is a key symptom of anorexia nervosa (AN). The majority of the
neuroimaging studies on body image distortion in AN conceptualized it as an …

This paper presents a review of studies that were aimed at determining which brain regions
are recruited during visual self-recognition, with a particular focus on self-face recognition. A …