The Bodily Self: The Sensori-Motor Roots of Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness

Legrand, Dorothée

doi:10.1007/s11097-005-9015-6

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“…However, beyond the use of the same notions, Frith's hypothesis contrasts sharply with the position we present here (see also Legrand, 2006). What is important in Frith's model is that, thanks to the aforementioned comparator and internal model, the organism can register the difference between world-related (exafference) and action-related (reafference) perceptual information.…”

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What is self-specific? Theoretical investigation and critical review of neuroimaging results.

Legrand¹,

Ruby²

2009

Psychological Review

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The authors propose a paradigm shift in the investigation of the self. Synthesizing neuroimaging results from studies investigating the self, the authors first demonstrate that self-relatedness evaluation involves a wide cerebral network, labeled E-network, comprising the medial prefrontal cortex, precuneus, temporoparietal junction, and temporal poles. They further show that this E-network is also recruited during resting state, others' mind reading, memory recall, and reasoning. According to these data, (a) the profile of activation of the E-network demonstrates no preference for the self, and (b) the authors suggest that activity in this network can be explained by the involvement of cognitive processes common to all the tasks recruiting it: inferential processing and memory recall. On this basis, they conclude that standard ways to tackle the self by considering self-evaluation do not target the self in its specificity. Instead, they argue that self-specificity characterizes the subjective perspective, which is not intrinsically self-evaluative but rather relates any represented object to the representing subject. They further propose that such self-specific subject-object relation is anchored to the sensorimotor integration of efference with reafference (i.e., the motor command of the subject's action and its sensory consequence in the external world).

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What is self-specific? Theoretical investigation and critical review of neuroimaging results.

Legrand¹,

Ruby²

2009

Psychological Review

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“…Such an understanding would be consistent with the psychological features that habitually accompany anorexia nervosa (e.g., anxiety, depression, OCD symptoms). It also resonates with the assumption that the manifestation of impaired neuromuscular and proprioceptive 5 control not only affects the subjective experience of the body, but also of the self, as the self is inherently bodily (Øien et al, 2007;Legrand, 2006). Notably, the withheld breath might indicate that problematic thoughts and feelings are contained within the body, instead of being attended to, or mentalized.…”

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Exercise and physical therapy help restore body and self in clients with severe anorexia nervosa

Kolnes

2017

Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies

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“…The bodily self is considered to arise from the brain's integration of multiple signals from different sensory modalities into one coherent multimodal percept (De Vignemont, 2014;Hurley, 1998;Legrand, 2006). This conception of the bodily self as the nexus of action and perception has also been put forward within the cognitive sciences.…”

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Putting Ourselves in Another’s Skin: Using the Plasticity of Self-Perception to Enhance Empathy and Decrease Prejudice

Farmer

Maister

2017

Soc Just Res

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The self is one the most important concepts in social cognition and plays a crucial role in determining questions such as which social groups we view ourselves as belonging to and how we relate to others. In the past decade, the self has also become an important topic within cognitive neuroscience with an explosion in the number of studies seeking to understand how different aspects of the self are represented within the brain. In this paper, we first outline the recent research on the neurocognitive basis of the self and highlight a key distinction between two forms of self-representation. The first is the ''bodily'' self, which is thought to be the basis of subjective experience and is grounded in the processing of sensorimotor signals. The second is the ''conceptual'' self, which develops through our interactions of other and is formed of a rich network of associative and semantic information. We then investigate how both the bodily and conceptual self are related to social cognition with an emphasis on how self-representations are involved in the processing and creation of prejudice. We then highlight new research demonstrating that the bodily and conceptual self are both malleable and that this malleability can be harnessed in order to achieve a reduction in social prejudice. In particular, we will outline strong evidence that modulating people's perceptions of the bodily self can lead to changes in attitudes at the conceptual level. We will highlight a series of studies demonstrating that social attitudes towards various social out-groups (e.g. racial groups) can lead to a reduction in prejudice towards that group. Finally, we seek to place these findings in a broader social context by considering how innovations in virtual reality technology can allow experiences of taking on another's identity are likely to become both more commonplace and more convincing in the future and the various opportunities and risks associated with using such technology to reduce prejudice.

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The Bodily Self: The Sensori-Motor Roots of Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness

Cited by 205 publications

References 37 publications

What is self-specific? Theoretical investigation and critical review of neuroimaging results.

What is self-specific? Theoretical investigation and critical review of neuroimaging results.

Exercise and physical therapy help restore body and self in clients with severe anorexia nervosa

Putting Ourselves in Another’s Skin: Using the Plasticity of Self-Perception to Enhance Empathy and Decrease Prejudice

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