Neural substrate of body size: illusory feeling of shrinking of the waist.
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The perception of the size and shape of one's body (body image) is a fundamental aspect of how we experience ourselves. We studied the neural correlates underlying perceived changes in the relative size of body parts by using a perceptual illusion in which participants felt that their waist was shrinking. We scanned the brains of the participants using functional magnetic resonance imaging. We found that activity in the cortices lining the left postcentral sulcus and the anterior part of the intraparietal sulcus reflected the illusion of waist shrinking, and that this activity was correlated with the reported degree of shrinking. These results suggest that the perceived changes in the size and shape of body parts are mediated by hierarchically higher-order somatosensory areas in the parietal cortex. Based on this finding we suggest that relative size of body parts is computed by the integration of more elementary somatic signals from different body segments.
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Experimentally-induced changes in the perceptual body image (perceived shape and size or posture of the body) have been related to the postcentral sulcus, intraparietal sulcus, insula, and inferior parietal lobule.
“whereas experimentally‐induced changes in the perceptual body image (perceived shape and size or posture of the body) have been related to the postcentral sulcus, intraparietal sulcus, insula, and inferior parietal lobule (Ehrsson et al., 2005; Kavounoudias et al., 2008; Naito et al., 2017).”
From Neural bases of the bodily self as revealed by electrical brain stimulation: A systematic review (2023) · cites this paper as Ehrsson et al., 2005
The Discussion (page not provided) links experimentally induced changes in perceived waist size and shape to the postcentral and intraparietal sulci. It also reports inferior parietal activity during illusory hand movement, but says that activity was not specific to the shrinking-waist illusion; the cited passages do not link the insula to the illusion. This paper therefore supports only part of the region list. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“…2002), whereas experimentally-induced changes in the perceptual body image (perceived shape and size or posture of the body) have been related to the postcentral sulcus, intraparietal sulcus, insula, and inferior parietal lobule (Ehrsson et al., 2005; Kavounoudias et al., 2008; Naito et al., 2017).”
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- Authors
- Ehrsson, H. H., Kito, T., Sadato, N., Passingham, R. E., & Naito, E.
- Affiliations
- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (GB)
- Kyoto University (JP)
- National Institute for Physiological Sciences (JP)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Ehrsson, H. Henrik
- Venue
- PLoS Biology
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2005-11-29
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- e412
- ISSN
- 1544-9173 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-7885
- PMC
- PMC1287503
- OpenAlex
- W2161414569
- Cited by
- 164
- References
- 50
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- PLoS Biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Keywords
- body image, body size perception, somatosensory cortex, postcentral sulcus, intraparietal sulcus, parietal cortex, neural correlates of perception
- MeSH terms
- Body Image, Brain, Emotions, Hand, Humans, Illusions, Perception, Psychophysics, Tomography Scanners, X-Ray Computed, Body Size
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