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This review says our sense of being a body comes from the brain combining many body signals. It describes three parts of bodily self-consciousness: self-identification (feeling a body is mine), self-location (where I feel I am), and the first-person perspective (the point from which I see). Experiments that create mismatched…
This editorial introduces a Research Topic about how the brain combines different senses to make a sense of the body. The collected studies look at touch, space, body image, and rehab methods and show the brain is flexible in how it uses sensory signals. The editors also say we still…
