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Creating Virtual-hand and Virtual-face Illusions to Investigate Self-representation
Published on: March 1, 2017
Self-identification with another person's face: the time relevant role of multimodal brain areas in the enfacement
Ilaria Bufalari1, Giuseppina Porciello2, Marco Sperduti3
1Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Sapienza," Rome, Italy; Laboratorio di Neuroscienze Sociali, IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy; ilaria.bufalari@uniroma1.it.
Abstract:
The illusory subjective experience of looking at one's own face while in fact looking at another person's face can surprisingly be induced by simple synchronized visuotactile stimulation of the two faces. A recent study (Apps MA, Tajadura-Jiménez A, Sereno M, Blanke O, Tsakiris M. Cereb Cortex. First published August 20, 2013; doi:10.1093/cercor/bht199) investigated for the first time the role of visual unimodal and temporoparietal multimodal brain areas in the enfacement illusion and suggested a model in which multisensory mechanisms are crucial to construct and update self-face representation.
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