Description

• Title:
  Ghost buster: The reality of one’s own body
• Creator:
  de Vignemont, Frederique
• Description:
  What are the epistemic bases of the knowledge of the reality of our own body? Proprioception plays a primordial role in body representation and more particularly at the level of body schema. Without proprioception people can feel amputated and the mislocalization of proprioceptive information through the remapping of the Penfield Homonculus induces illusions of phantom limbs, illusions that contradictory visual feedback cannot erase. However, it turns out that it is not as simple as that and that vision also intervenes in body knowledge: vision of one’s own body allows deafferented patients to move and phantom limbs to disappear. Finally, the existence of phantom limbs in aplasic patients as well as studies on neonates provide evidence of an innate component of body representation.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Theoria et Historia Scientiarum
• Date:
  2007.01.02
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Theoria et Historia Scientiarum; Vol. 7 No. 1 (2003): Embodiment and awareness; 119-138;
  Theoria et Historia Scientiarum; Tom 7 Nr 1 (2003): Embodiment and awareness; 119-138;
  2392-1196;
  0867-4159
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/THS/article/view/ths.2003.007/13389
• Subject:
  proprioception;
  body representation;
  body schema;
  phantom limbs;
  aplasic patients;
  neonates
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/THS/article/view/ths.2003.007
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text