ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2019
Direct Electrophysiological Correlates of Body Ownership in Human Cerebral Cortex.
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- Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Novel method for rubber hand illusion strength measurement based on inverse multidimensional scaling.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Distinct Roles of the Premotor and Occipitotemporal Cortices in the Full-Body Illusion.eNeuro · 2025Article
- The Somatosensory Cortex and Body Representation: Updating the Motor System during a Visuoproprioceptive Cue Conflict.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Evidence of a hierarchical representation in bodily self-consciousness: the neural correlates of embodiment and presence in virtual worlds.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Subcortical contributions to the sense of body ownership.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2024Article
- No reduction in motor-evoked potential amplitude during the rubber hand illusion.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- From rubber hands to neuroprosthetics: Neural correlates of embodiment.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- Proprioceptive uncertainty promotes the rubber hand illusion.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2023Article
- Neural Substrates of Body Ownership and Agency during Voluntary Movement.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Muscle activity prior to experiencing the rubber hand illusion is associated with alterations in perceived hand location.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Minimal self-consciousness and the flying man argument.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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- Neural dynamics of illusory tactile pulling sensations.iScience · 2022Article
- Diametrical modulation of tactile and visual perceptual thresholds during the rubber hand illusion: a predictive coding account.Psychological research · 2022Article
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Abstract
Over the past decade, numerous neuroimaging studies based on hemodynamic markers of brain activity have examined the feeling of body ownership using perceptual body-illusions in humans. However, the direct electrophysiological correlates of body ownership at the cortical level remain unexplored. To address this, we studied the rubber hand illusion in 5 patients (3 males and 2 females) implanted with intracranial electrodes measuring cortical surface potentials. Increased high-γ (70-200 Hz) activity, an index of neuronal firing rate, in premotor and intraparietal cortices reflected the feeling of ownership. In both areas, high-γ increases were intimately coupled with the subjective illusion onset and sustained both during and in-between touches. However, intraparietal activity was modulated by tactile stimulation to a higher degree than the premotor cortex through effective connectivity with the hand-somatosensory cortex, which suggests different functional roles. These findings constitute the first intracranial electrophysiological characterization of the rubber hand illusion and extend our understanding of the dynamic mechanisms of body ownership.
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