Functional and Neural Signatures of Body-ownership

As agents, we act upon the world with our body, and we experience ourselves, and the world through the same body. This fact implies that the sense of self is crucially dependent on motor-efferent and sensory-afferent signals. The exact nature of sensory-motor interactions that generate a sense of self is still unknown. This research aims to empirically identify the basic neuro-cognitive principles governing an embodied sense of self.