The current study examined the relationship between women’s physical attractiveness – as rated by themselves and a set of third-party raters – and their mating strategy and sexual experience. Male (N = 105) and female (N = 113) undergraduates rated the attractiveness of face and body photographs of 93 female undergraduates. Attractiveness ratings – particularly bodily attractiveness ratings – w...

Human actions are more than mere body movements. In contrast to other dynamic events in the natural world, human actions involve mental processes that enable willful bodily movements. We reported two experiments to demonstrate that human observers spontaneously assign the role of cause to relative limb movements, and the role of effect to body motion (i.e., the position changes of the body cent...

The paper by Tsakiris et al. reviews an important series of recent studies that have investigated body ownership and agency using techniques from experimental psychology and neuroimaging. The reviewed data highlight the importance of multisensory as well as sensori-motor signals for both phenomena and tackle the fascinating issue of how humans’ everyday (mostly unconscious) bodily experiences o...

Neuroscientific research on the perception of emotional signals has mainly focused on how the brain processes threat signals from photographs of facial expressions. Much less is known about body postures or about the processing of dynamic images. We undertook a systematic comparison of the neurofunctional network dedicated to processing facial and bodily expressions. Two functional magnetic res...

There is no single sense for perceiving our own bodies, any more than there is a single sense for perceiving the external world. Nonetheless, folk wisdom groups bodily sensations together—unlike the five external senses, which are intuitively distinct. In part this may be because the systems that produce an experience of arm position, an itch, or an upset stomach, lack obvious sensory organs. I...

Emotions and affective feelings are influenced by one's internal state of bodily arousal via interoception. Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) are associated with difficulties in recognising others' emotions, and in regulating own emotions. We tested the hypothesis that, in people with ASC, such affective differences may arise from abnormalities in interoceptive processing. We demonstrated that i...

Pure qualia representationalism, as I construe it in this paper, is the view that all qualia can be accounted for in terms of the representational content of sensations. This view is motivated by naturalism about qualia. I argue against this thesis by showing that so-called intransitive bodily sensations such as pains, tickles, itches, orgasms, etc., are intransitive precisely because their qua...