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The detached self: Investigating the effect of depersonalisation on self-bias in the visual remapping of touch

Farmer, H; Cataldo, A; Adel, N; Wignall, E; Gallese, V; Deroy, O; Hamilton, A; (2020) The detached self: Investigating the effect of depersonalisation on self-bias in the visual remapping of touch. Multisensory Research pp. 1-22. 10.1163/22134808-bja10038. Green open access

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Abstract

There is a growing consensus that our most fundamental sense of self is structured by the ongoing integration of sensory and motor information related to our own body. Depersonalisation (DP) is an intriguing form of altered subjective experience in which people report feelings of unreality and detachment from their sense of self. The current study used the visual remapping of touch (VRT) paradigm to explore self-bias in visual–tactile integration in non-clinical participants reporting high and low levels of depersonalisation experiences. We found that the high-DP group showed an increased overall VRT effect but a no-self-face bias, instead showing a greater VRT effect when observing the face of another person. In addition, across all participants, self-bias was negatively predicted by the occurrence of anomalous body experiences. These results indicate disrupted integration of tactile and visual representations of the bodily self in those experiencing high levels of DP and provide greater understanding of how disruptions in multisensory perception of the self may underlie the phenomenology of depersonalisation.

Type: Article
Title: The detached self: Investigating the effect of depersonalisation on self-bias in the visual remapping of touch
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1163/22134808-bja10038
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134808-bja10038
Language: English
Additional information: © Farmer et al., 2020 DOI:10.1163/22134808-bja10038 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.
Keywords: Depersonalisation; self; visual remapping of touch; touch; social cognition
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10115851
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