The role of the right temporo-parietal junction in maintaining a coherent sense of one's body

Tsakiris, Manos; Costantini, Marcello; Haggard, Patrick

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.06.004

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“…Some of these areas appear to reflect the specific properties of the body part being stimulated, for example, experiencing synchronous stimulation on the face leads to activation in face specific regions of the inferior occipital gyrus (Apps, Tajadura-Jiménez, Sereno, Blanke, & Tsakiris, 2015), while stimulation of the hand or whole body leads to activation in a visual region that is sensitive to non-face body parts (Ionta et al, 2011;Limanowski, Lutti, & Blankenburg, 2014). However, multisensory regions have also been identified which show sensitivity to the manipulation of body ownership, including the temporal-parietal junction (TPJ) (Ionta et al, 2011;Tsakiris, Costantini, & Haggard, 2008), the dorsoanterior insula (Ehrsson, Spence, & Passingham, 2004;Limanowski et al, 2014), the posterior insula (Tsakiris, Hesse, Boy, Haggard, & Fink, 2007) and the premotor cortex (Bekrater-Bodmann et al, 2014;Ehrsson et al, 2004;Petkova et al, 2011;Tsakiris et al, 2007).…”

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Putting Ourselves in Another’s Skin: Using the Plasticity of Self-Perception to Enhance Empathy and Decrease Prejudice

Farmer

Maister

2017

Soc Just Res

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The self is one the most important concepts in social cognition and plays a crucial role in determining questions such as which social groups we view ourselves as belonging to and how we relate to others. In the past decade, the self has also become an important topic within cognitive neuroscience with an explosion in the number of studies seeking to understand how different aspects of the self are represented within the brain. In this paper, we first outline the recent research on the neurocognitive basis of the self and highlight a key distinction between two forms of self-representation. The first is the ''bodily'' self, which is thought to be the basis of subjective experience and is grounded in the processing of sensorimotor signals. The second is the ''conceptual'' self, which develops through our interactions of other and is formed of a rich network of associative and semantic information. We then investigate how both the bodily and conceptual self are related to social cognition with an emphasis on how self-representations are involved in the processing and creation of prejudice. We then highlight new research demonstrating that the bodily and conceptual self are both malleable and that this malleability can be harnessed in order to achieve a reduction in social prejudice. In particular, we will outline strong evidence that modulating people's perceptions of the bodily self can lead to changes in attitudes at the conceptual level. We will highlight a series of studies demonstrating that social attitudes towards various social out-groups (e.g. racial groups) can lead to a reduction in prejudice towards that group. Finally, we seek to place these findings in a broader social context by considering how innovations in virtual reality technology can allow experiences of taking on another's identity are likely to become both more commonplace and more convincing in the future and the various opportunities and risks associated with using such technology to reduce prejudice.

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Section: Bodily Selfmentioning

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Putting Ourselves in Another’s Skin: Using the Plasticity of Self-Perception to Enhance Empathy and Decrease Prejudice

Farmer

Maister

2017

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“…According to Tsakiris, these test-for-fit processes would be computed in the right TPJ, a region that could harbour a structural model of the body. Indeed, TMS applied over the TPJ facilitates the experience of ownership for non-corporeal objects, suggesting that interfering with sensory processing at the TPJ can disrupt the test-for-fit processes and increases the likelihood of self-attributing non-corporeal objects into one's body schema (Tsakiris, Costantini, & Haggard, 2008).…”

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Bodily ownership and self-location: Components of bodily self-consciousness

Serino

Alsmith

Costantini

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Consciousness and Cognition

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a b s t r a c tRecent research on bodily self-consciousness has assumed that it consists of three distinct components: the experience of owning a body (body ownership); the experience of being a body with a given location within the environment (self-location); and the experience of taking a first-person, body-centered, perspective on that environment (perspective). Here we review recent neuroimaging studies suggesting that at least two of these components-body ownership and self-location-are implemented in rather distinct neural substrates, located, respectively, in the premotor cortex and in the temporo-parietal junction. We examine these results and consider them in relation to clinical evidence from patients with altered body perception and work on a variety of multisensory, body-related illusions, such as the rubber hand illusion, the full body illusion, the body swap illusion and the enfacement illusion. We conclude by providing a preliminary synthesis of the data on bodily self-consciousness and its neural correlates.

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“…when inputs from different sensory modalities, presented in temporal and spatial coincidence, converge in multimodal areas (Stein and Meredith, 1993). Importantly, this late parietal activation has been suggested to reflect integration of convergent sensory inputs into a multisensory representation of one's own body (Blanke et al, 2004;Gentile et al, 2011;Graziano et al, 1994;Leube et al, 2003;Papeo et al, 2010;Tsakiris et al, 2008).…”

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Congruency of body-related information induces somatosensory reorganization

Cardini

Longo

2016

Neuropsychologia

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Chronic pain and impaired tactile sensitivity are frequently associated with "blurred" representations in the somatosensory cortex. The factors that produce such somatosensory blurring, however, remain poorly understood. We manipulated visuotactile congruence to investigate its role in promoting somatosensory reorganization.To this aim we used the mirror box illusion that produced in participants the subjective feeling of looking directly at their left hand, though they were seeing the reflection of their right hand. Simultaneous touches were applied to the middle or ring finger of each hand. In one session, the same fingers were touched (for example both middle fingers), producing a congruent percept; in the other session different fingers were touched, producing an incongruent percept. In the somatosensory system, 3

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The role of the right temporo-parietal junction in maintaining a coherent sense of one's body

Cited by 247 publications

References 30 publications

Putting Ourselves in Another’s Skin: Using the Plasticity of Self-Perception to Enhance Empathy and Decrease Prejudice

Putting Ourselves in Another’s Skin: Using the Plasticity of Self-Perception to Enhance Empathy and Decrease Prejudice

Bodily ownership and self-location: Components of bodily self-consciousness

Congruency of body-related information induces somatosensory reorganization

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