Mind the Body: An Exploration of Bodily Self-Awareness

Mind the Body is the first comprehensive treatment of bodily awareness. It explores questions such as: How do I perceive my body? What makes me feel this specific body is my own? These questions are vividly illustrated with examples of bodily illusions and puzzling bodily disorders, which lead us to...

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Main Author: de Vignemont, édérique (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Oxford University Press USA- OSO 2018
In:Year: 2018
Reviews:[Rezension von: Vignemont, Frédérique$cde, 1976-, Mind the body] (2019) (Wehinger, Daniel)
Further subjects:B Self-consciousness (Awareness)
B Electronic books
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9780198735885
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Summary:Mind the Body is the first comprehensive treatment of bodily awareness. It explores questions such as: How do I perceive my body? What makes me feel this specific body is my own? These questions are vividly illustrated with examples of bodily illusions and puzzling bodily disorders, which lead us to question some of our most basic intuitions.
Intro -- Mind the Body -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- The Mind in the Body -- The Body in the Mind -- General Outline -- PART I Body Snatchers -- 1: Whose Body? -- 1.1 A Phenomenal Contrast -- 1.1.1 The Rubber Hand Illusion -- 1.1.2 A Sense of Disownership -- 1.2 A Cognitive Interpretation -- 1.2.1 What Cognitive State? -- 1.2.2 Bodily Knowledge without Observation -- 1.2.3 Beyond Myness -- 1.3 Conclusion -- 2: Over and Above Bodily Sensations -- 2.1 The Sole-Object View -- 2.2 The Puzzle of Tools -- 2.2.1 Referred Sensations in Tools -- 2.2.2 A Special Status for Pain? -- 2.3 The Puzzle of Disownership -- 2.4 A Feeling of Presence -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3: The Immunity of the Sense of Ownership -- 3.1 Bodily Immunity from the Inside -- 3.1.1 False Negative: Somatoparaphrenia -- 3.1.2 False Positive: the RHI -- 3.1.3 False Positive: the Embodiment Delusion -- 3.2 Bodily Immunity from the Outside -- 3.2.1 Self-Location -- 3.2.2 Seeing One´s Body -- 3.3 Self-Specificity and Self-Reference -- 3.3.1 The B-Lander -- 3.3.2 Bodily IEM and the Sense of Bodily Ownership -- 3.4 Conclusion -- PART II Body-Builder -- 4: Bodily Space -- 4.1 Are Bodily Sensations Spatial? -- 4.1.1 The Local Sign Theory -- 4.1.2 Free-Floating Bodily Sensations -- 4.1.3 The Duality of Spatiality -- 4.2 A Sensorimotor Approach -- 4.2.1 Tactile-Motor Laws -- 4.2.2 Dissociation between Bodily Know-How and Bodily Experiences -- 4.3 Conclusion -- 5: The Body Map Theory -- 5.1 A Representationalist Approach -- 5.1.1 The Body Map -- 5.1.2 Bodily Location and Egocentric Location -- 5.2 The Rubber Band Hypothesis -- 5.2.1 A Liberal Model -- 5.2.2 A Conservative Model -- 5.3 Where Can One Feel Bodily Sensations? -- 5.3.1 Bodily Illusions in Non-Bodily Shaped Objects -- 5.3.2 Sensations in Remote Objects.
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ISBN:0191054755