Attending to the bodily self
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In: Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 7, No. 1-4, 15.08.2015, p. 28-9.
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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 -