1st Edition

The Body in the Brain Body Representations, Processes and Neural Mechanisms

Edited By Stephen Jackson, Laurel Buxbaum, H. Coslett Copyright 2011
    124 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    128 Pages
    by Routledge

    The past decade has seen increasing interest within the cognitive neuroscience community in understanding the psychological processes involved in representing the body, and in learning how these processes may be implemented within the brain. This special issue of Cognitive Neuroscience contributes to the rapidly developing literature by presenting six empirical and two theoretical discussion papers and their commentaries. It provides a timely review of the current state-of-the-art on several of the most important topic areas in the body representation field.

    Introduction -- Cognitive neuroscience of bodily representations: Psychological processes and neural mechanisms/Stephen R. jackson, Laurel /. Buxbaum, and H. Branch Coslett -- Combined effects of attention and inversion on event-related potentials to human bodies and faces Tarik N. Mohamed, Markus F. Neumann, and Stefan R. Schweinberger -- The influence of body-ownership cues on tactile sensitivity/Regine Zopf, Justin A. Harris, and Mark A. Williams -- Imagined paralysis impairs embodied spatial transformations/Matthias Hartmann, Caroline /. Falconer, and Fred W. Mast -- Differential effects of perceived hand location on the disruption of embodiment by apparent physical encroachment of the limb/Catherine Preston and Roger Newport -- Proprioceptive drift without illusions of ownership for rotated hands in the "rubber hand illusion” paradigm/Henning Holle, Neil McLatchie, Stefanie Maurer, and jamie Ward -- Disownership and disembodiment of the real limb without visuoproprioceptive mismatch/Roger Newport and Catherine Preston -- Discussion Paper -- The role of occipitotemporal body-selective regions in person perception/Paul £ Downing and Marius V. Peelen -- Commentaries -- Do body-part concepts depend on the EBA/FBA?/David Kemmerer -- Adaptation studies suggest interactive feedback shapes responses in occipitotemporal regions/Michael P. Ewbank -- Human body perception and higher-level person perception are dissociated in early development/Virginia Slaughter -- No two are the same: Body shape is part of identifying others/Richard Ramsey, Hein T. van Schie, and Emily S. Cross -- When perception and attention collide: Neural processing in EBA and FBA/Susanne Quadflieg and Bruno Rossion -- Differential contributions of occipitotemporal regions to person perception/Annie W.-Y. Chan and Chris /. Baker -- The extrastriate body area (EBA): One structure, multiple functions?/Floris P. de Lange and Harold Bekkering -- Functional and epiphenomenal modulation of neural activity in body-selective visual areas/Cosimo Urgesi and Alessio Avenanti -- Faces and bodies in the brain/Giovanni Berlucchi.

    Biography

    Stephen R. Jackson, University of Nottingham, UK

    Laurel J. Buxbaum, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, USA

    H. Branch Coslett, University of Pennsylvania, USA