TY - JOUR

T1 - Attending to the bodily self

AU - Maister, Lara

AU - Farmer, Harry

PY - 2015/8/15

Y1 - 2015/8/15

N2 - Humphreys and Sui provide a powerful theoretical framework to explain processing biases toward self-related information. However, the framework is primarily applied to information relevant to a conceptual self-representation. Here, we show a similar processing bias for information related to the bodily self, grounded in sensorimotor representations. Furthermore, we can use bodily illusions to explore the ways in which embodied self-associations can affect our perceptual and attentional processing. It is possible to extend the current framework to take into account these effects, and we argue that this will yield considerable benefits for our understanding of self-relevance.

AB - Humphreys and Sui provide a powerful theoretical framework to explain processing biases toward self-related information. However, the framework is primarily applied to information relevant to a conceptual self-representation. Here, we show a similar processing bias for information related to the bodily self, grounded in sensorimotor representations. Furthermore, we can use bodily illusions to explore the ways in which embodied self-associations can affect our perceptual and attentional processing. It is possible to extend the current framework to take into account these effects, and we argue that this will yield considerable benefits for our understanding of self-relevance.

KW - Attention

KW - Bias

KW - Humans

KW - Illusions

KW - Self Concept

U2 - 10.1080/17588928.2015.1075490

DO - 10.1080/17588928.2015.1075490

M3 - Article

C2 - 26274592

VL - 7

SP - 28

EP - 29

JO - Cognitive Neuroscience

JF - Cognitive Neuroscience

SN - 1758-8928

IS - 1-4

ER -