Some Body I Call My Self
Brainy Thursday,
You are the center of the universe! Well, not because the world revolves around you – it doesn’t. But you’re literally an egoist.
You are the center of the universe! Well, not because the world revolves around you – it doesn’t. But you’re literally an egoist.
"Who are you?" isn't only a philosophical question, it also makes us ponder the boundaries of the self and whole-body ownership.
[Last month, I volunteered for a study at the department of neuroscience at Karolinska Institute, if just out of curiosity to…
Another intriguing experiment…
That's the name of our January term course, a trip to London and Edinburgh to learn about the Scottish Enlightenment and its…
It appears that the year 2008 is closing on a good note - in the last 6 days three important articles from PLoS ONE were…
The 'rubber hand illusion' is where we can be fooled into feeling a sensation in a fake hand. A group of researchers have used…
This article on creating the illusion of body swaping using virtual reality gear made me think of the mirror therapy for…
Walking the proverbial mile in someone elses shoes just got significantly easier, thanks to the work of a group of Swedish…
Body ownership - the sense that one's body belongs to one's…
Swedish researchers Henrik Ehrsson and Valeria Petkova have used technology to fool the brains of subjects into thinking that…
In reference to More about glia, and a Neurophilosophy post on Moseley: Today's post is short, because Mo has already written it.
Do psychotherapists now have a new trick? Or is it all smoke and mirrors? The New York Times reports today on Standing in…