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The brain’s sense of “this is my body” is tightly bound to conscious awareness – far more than many theories assume.

Jonathan Cohen, who is the director of the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute, and Matthew Botvinick, who is the lead researcher at Google DeepMind, are currently leading scholars in ...

A world-famous psychological experiment used to help explain the brain's understanding of the body, as well as scores of clinical disorders, has been dismissed as not fit-for-purpose in a new academic ...

Mice have been shown to experience an artificial sense of limb ownership, similar to the famous "rubber-hand illusion" in humans. "The rubber hand illusion is a staple of the study of body ...

Proprioception, or the sense of how our body and limbs are positioned, is central to our self-concept. Damage to the proprioceptive system can have devastating effects on the ability to coordinate ...

A world-famous psychological experiment used to help explain the brain's understanding of the body, as well as scores of clinical disorders, has been dismissed as not fit-for-purpose in a new academic ...

Stroking a rubber hand in front of someone while stroking their hidden real hand in the same way can make people feel as if the rubber hand is theirs. But it may take merely the expectation of being ...

Just as Philip Martinez could fool his brain into thinking his missing left arm had magically reappeared, anyone—even someone with all body parts intact—can trick his or her brain into thinking ...