The reciprocal coupling of perception and action in cognitive agents has been firmly established: perceptions guide action but so too do actions influence what is perceived. While much has been said on the implications of this for the agent's external behavior, less attention has been paid to what it means for the internal bodily mechanisms which underpin cognitive behavior. In this article, we...

Mental processes and their neural substrates are intimately linked to the homeostatic control of internal bodily state. There are a set of distinct interoceptive pathways that directly and indirectly influence brain functions. The anatomical organization of these pathways and the psychological/behavioral expressions of their influence appear along discrete, evolutionarily conserved dimensions t...

Perception of the environment is constantly monitored by the sensory receptors of position and movement. Bodily balance is maintained by integration of the receptors localized in the vestibular, visual and somatosensory systems that are integrated into the central nervous system [1]. Physiological changes due to chronic diseases, musculoskeletal disorders and neurological lesions, among others,...

During the life cycle, women will undergo different changes that inevitably alter self perception. The unannounced visit of the menarche that brings along other physical changes such as secondary sex characteristics and the dramatic bodily and emotional changes during pregnancy and menopause continuously forces a reconstruction and adjustment to the sense of self. Such dramatic changes sometime...

This covers a series of lectures delivered by the late Mr. Chance in the j^ear 1852 and subsequently at the City Orthopaedic Hospital, including many illustrations drawn by the late author "on the wood" from casts of cases, and brought up to date by the editor. It is written in a pleasant scientific style, and we note quotations from the late Dr. J. C. Prichard, of Bristol, on Researches into t...

Abstract As most philosophers recognize, the body’s central role in touch differs from it plays other sense modalities. Any account of must then explain pivotal nature involvement touch. Unlike accounts touch, this paper argues that centrality is not phenomenological or experiential: body felt any special way tactile experiences. Building on Aristotle’s De Anima, I argue because medium percepti...

BACKGROUND Disembodiment is a core feature of depersonalization disorder (DPD). Given the narratives of DPD patients about their disembodiment and emotional numbing and neurobiological findings of an inhibition of insular activity, DPD may be considered as a mental disorder with specific impairments of interoceptive awareness and body perception. METHODS We investigated cardioceptive accuracy...