Université de Fribourg

The bodily self: Insights from clinical and experimental research

Dieguez, Sebastian ; Lopez, Christophe

In: Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 2017, vol. 60, no. 3, p. 198–207

This review article summarizes neuropsychological descriptions of abnormal body representations in brain-damaged patients and recent neuroscientific investigations of their sensorimotor underpinnings in healthy participants. The first part of the article describes unilateral disorders of the bodily self, such as asomatognosia, feelings of amputation, supernumerary phantom limbs and...