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Frontiers Media, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, (9)

DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00163

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Towards multiple interactions of inner and outer sensations in corporeal awareness

Journal article published in 2015 by Giuliana Lucci, Mariella Pazzaglia ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Under normal circumstances, different inner- and outer-body sources are integrated to form coherent and accurate mental experiences of the state of the body, leading to the phenomenon of corporeal awareness. How these processes are affected by changes in inner and outer inputs to the body, remains unclear. Here, we aim to present empirical evidence in which people experiencing a massive sensory disconnect may continue to experience feelings of their body state, suggesting that misperceptions of body awareness are determined by incomplete inner and outer signals. In these clinical populations, despite a long period of massive deafferentation, the activity of the neural structures subserving inner and outer body processing can be manipulated and tuned by means of body illusions that are usually based on multisensory stimulation. We suggest that a multisensory therapeutic approach could be adopted in the context of therapies for patients suffering from deafferentation. In this way, these individuals could regain a more complete feeling of their body state and the sensations they experience, which vary widely depending on their neurological condition.