TY  - GEN
AU  - Botvinick, Matthew
AU  - Botvinick, Matthew
LA  - eng
CN  - ENP-cb498ac3-558d-4f5d-9517-1e2509127e32
TI  - Probing the neural basis of body ownership
PY  - 2004
AB  - How do we distinguish our bodies from other objects and know that our body parts belong to us? In his Perspective, [Botvinick][1] explains intriguing new data ([Ehrsson et al.][2]) showing that the feeling of body ownership depends on activation of premotor cortex neurons and their ability to integrate diverse sensory information (visual, tactile, and proprioceptive) from our body parts.

Comments on the article by Ehrsson et al (see record 2004-17483-002), which reported a functional neuroimaging study in which they probed the neural underpinnings of the bodily self, and concluded that neural activity in the premotor cortex reflects the feeling of ownership of a seen hand. The current author suggests that the Ehrsson et al findings square well with the idea that self-identification depends oh the integration of multisensory information.
ER  -