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body awareness
Also known as: bodily self-awareness, bodily awareness, body awareness
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Self-Consciousness - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu Jul 24, 2024 9 facts
claimSomatoparaphrenia is a disorder of bodily self-awareness where patients affirm that a paralyzed limb is not part of their own body.
claimBodily awareness, including proprioception and kinesthesis, provides object awareness of the self by providing information exclusively about the self.
claimBermúdez (2018) suggests that one approach to bodily awareness is to emphasize the distinctive way in which the space of the body is experienced.
claimUnilateral spatial neglect is a disorder of bodily self-awareness where brain-damaged patients ignore stimuli on one side of their body and often disavow that side.
claimThe neo-Lockean view of bodily awareness posits that the sense of ownership coincides with the extent of direct, personal concern and is closely tied to agency, as proposed by De Vignemont in 2018.
perspectiveProponents of the elusiveness thesis argue that bodily awareness is insufficient for genuine self-consciousness because it does not constitute being aware of oneself specifically as a self.
claimCognitive science research focuses on the role that bodily awareness plays in a subject's sense of ownership for their bodies and individual body parts.
referenceCognitive scientists have explored dimensions of self-consciousness including how perception yields self-specifying information, self-recognition in infants and animals, the mechanisms and phenomenology of bodily awareness, and the interdependence of self-consciousness and consciousness of others in theory of mind.
claimAlien hand syndrome is a disorder of bodily self-awareness where a patient's hand makes unwilled but goal-directed movements.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 13, 2017 7 facts
claimJoel Smith (2006b) provides an imagination-based argument against bodily awareness as a form of self-awareness, while Bermúdez (2011) provides a response to this argument.
claimIndian philosophical traditions, including Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist schools, engaged in extensive debates during the ancient and medieval periods regarding the nature of self-consciousness and its relationship to sensory perception and bodily awareness.
claimBill Brewer (1995) argues that bodily awareness involves perceiving one's body as oneself because bodily sensations are perceived as properties of oneself and as located properties of the body.
claimM.G.F. Martin explored bodily awareness and the sense of ownership in his 1995 work 'Bodily Awareness: A Sense of Ownership'.
referenceCheryl K. Chen explored bodily awareness and immunity to error through misidentification in her 2011 paper 'Bodily Awareness and Immunity to Error through Misidentification'.
claimMartin (1995, 1997) argues that if bodily awareness is a form of self-awareness, then the body presented in bodily awareness must be manifestly oneself, based on the claims that first-person thoughts cannot fail to refer to their thinker and that this is manifest in the thinking process.
claimP.F. Strawson (1966), Evans (1982), Sutton Morris (1982), Ayers (1991), Brewer (1995), Cassam (1995, 1997), and Bermúdez (1998, 2011) maintain that even if introspection does not reveal the self as an object, bodily awareness is a form of perceptual experience that does reveal the self.
4.5 Consciousness – Cognitive Psychology nmoer.pressbooks.pub 5 facts
claimThe human brain generates body awareness by registering coincident sensations, such as seeing a hand rub an arm while simultaneously feeling the sensation in both the hand and the arm.
claimThe temporoparietal junction is a region of the cortex that mediates the construction of body awareness.
claimDamage to the temporoparietal junction can cause distorted body awareness, such as the sensation of having an elongated torso.
claimThe rubber hand illusion, where a person sees a rubber hand being rubbed while simultaneously feeling a rubbing sensation on their own hidden body, causes the person to momentarily feel that the rubber hand is their own.
claimThe brain mechanisms that generate distorted body awareness or out-of-body experiences when stimulated may also be responsible for the normal sense of self and the sensation of being inside a body.
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimHolzel et al. (2011a) identified specific component mechanisms of mindfulness, including attention regulation, emotion regulation, body awareness, and a change in the perspective on the self.