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Towards multiple interactions of inner and outer sensations in corporeal awareness

Under normal circumstances, different inner- and outer-body sources are integrated to form coherent and accurate mental experiences of the state of the body, leading to the phenomenon of corporeal awareness. How these processes are affected by changes in inner and outer inputs to the body remains un...

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Autores principales: Lucci, Giuliana, Pazzaglia, Mariella
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25883564
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00163
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description Under normal circumstances, different inner- and outer-body sources are integrated to form coherent and accurate mental experiences of the state of the body, leading to the phenomenon of corporeal awareness. How these processes are affected by changes in inner and outer inputs to the body remains unclear. Here, we aim to present empirical evidence in which people with a massive sensory and motor disconnection may continue to experience feelings of general body state awareness without complete control of their inner and outer states. In these clinical populations, the activity of the neural structures subserving inner and outer body processing can be manipulated and tuned by means of body illusions that are usually based on multisensory stimulation. We suggest that a multisensory therapeutic approach could be adopted in the context of therapies for patients suffering from deafferentation and deefferentation. In this way, these individuals could regain a more complete feeling and control of the sensations they experience, which vary widely depending on their neurological condition.
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spelling pubmed-43816482015-04-16 Towards multiple interactions of inner and outer sensations in corporeal awareness Lucci, Giuliana Pazzaglia, Mariella Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience Under normal circumstances, different inner- and outer-body sources are integrated to form coherent and accurate mental experiences of the state of the body, leading to the phenomenon of corporeal awareness. How these processes are affected by changes in inner and outer inputs to the body remains unclear. Here, we aim to present empirical evidence in which people with a massive sensory and motor disconnection may continue to experience feelings of general body state awareness without complete control of their inner and outer states. In these clinical populations, the activity of the neural structures subserving inner and outer body processing can be manipulated and tuned by means of body illusions that are usually based on multisensory stimulation. We suggest that a multisensory therapeutic approach could be adopted in the context of therapies for patients suffering from deafferentation and deefferentation. In this way, these individuals could regain a more complete feeling and control of the sensations they experience, which vary widely depending on their neurological condition. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4381648/ /pubmed/25883564 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00163 Text en Copyright © 2015 Lucci and Pazzaglia. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution and reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title Towards multiple interactions of inner and outer sensations in corporeal awareness
title_full Towards multiple interactions of inner and outer sensations in corporeal awareness
title_fullStr Towards multiple interactions of inner and outer sensations in corporeal awareness
title_full_unstemmed Towards multiple interactions of inner and outer sensations in corporeal awareness
title_short Towards multiple interactions of inner and outer sensations in corporeal awareness
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25883564
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