Ομιλία του καθηγητή Μάνου Τσακίρη, University of London με θέμα:“Body-conscious? Yes, but in what way(s)? ”
Abstract: Awareness of one’s body is intimately linked to self-identity, the sense of being “me”. A key question is how the brain integrates different sensory signals from the body to produce the experience of this body as mine. Converging evidence suggests that the integration of exteroceptive signals related to the body, such as vision and touch, produces or even alters the sense of self. However, multisensory integration conveys information about the body as perceived from the outside, and hence, represents only one channel of information available for self-awareness. Interoception, defined here as the sense of the physiological condition of the body, is an ubiquitous information channel used to represent one’s body from within. How does interoceptive information interact with exteroceptive information to produce the more general awareness of the “material me”? I will present a series of behavioral and neuroimaging experiments that investigate this interaction and propose a model of the self that relies on the integration of the body as perceived from within and from the outside.
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