Haggard, Patrick;
Longo, Matthew R;
(2025)
Somatosensation and the sense of self.
Current Biology
, 35
(20)
R992-R998.
10.1016/j.cub.2025.07.062.
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Abstract
Our own body is the constant accompaniment of our waking mental life, and the seat of all our sensory experience and responses. Unsurprisingly, therefore, the body is a key component in individual self-consciousness, in addition to other, psychological components such as autobiographical memory and explicit self-construal. The experiences that we have of and through our body are a good way to understand this basic bodily self. All these experiences begin with the excitation of sensory receptors in the body, which send somatosensory afferent signals to the central nervous system (CNS).
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Somatosensation and the sense of self |
| Location: | England |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cub.2025.07.062 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.07.062 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| 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/10218192 |
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