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Posterior Cingulate Cortex Integrates the Senses of Self-Location and Body Ownership

Overview of attention for article published in Current Biology, April 2015
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Title
Posterior Cingulate Cortex Integrates the Senses of Self-Location and Body Ownership
Published in
Current Biology, April 2015
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2015.03.059
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Authors

Arvid Guterstam, Malin Björnsdotter, Giovanni Gentile, H. Henrik Ehrsson

Abstract

The senses of owning a body and being localized somewhere in space are two key components of human self-consciousness. Despite a wealth of neurophysiological and neuroimaging research on the representations of the spatial environment in the parietal and medial temporal cortices, the relationship between body ownership and self-location remains unexplored. To investigate this relationship, we used a multisensory out-of-body illusion to manipulate healthy participants' perceived self-location, head direction, and sense of body ownership during high-resolution fMRI. Activity patterns in the hippocampus and the posterior cingulate, retrosplenial, and intraparietal cortices reflected the sense of self-location, whereas the sense of body ownership was associated with premotor-intraparietal activity. The functional interplay between these two sets of areas was mediated by the posterior cingulate cortex. These results extend our understanding of the role of the posterior parietal and medial temporal cortices in spatial cognition by demonstrating that these areas not only are important for ecological behaviors, such as navigation and perspective taking, but also support the perceptual representation of the bodily self in space. Our results further suggest that the posterior cingulate cortex has a key role in integrating the neural representations of self-location and body ownership.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Germany 3 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Israel 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Other 6 2%
Unknown 364 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 89 23%
Researcher 66 17%
Student > Master 55 14%
Student > Bachelor 30 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 24 6%
Other 62 16%
Unknown 60 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 121 31%
Neuroscience 76 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 25 6%
Computer Science 11 3%
Other 40 10%
Unknown 87 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 206. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 July 2023.
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#190,273
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#928
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#21
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