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The specific phenomenology of ownership can arise either from non-conceptual content that represents one's body as one's own, or from a specific mode of presentation of bodily representations.
The IPL is involved in bodily representations that distinguish the self from the other [3], and was found to be more activated when pictures of mutilations were presented than when contamination or neutral pictures were shown[17], which suggests a stronger effect on the somatosensory system in observers exposed to the former than the latter conditions.
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The town's inhabitants fear the bodily representation of Old Man Thunder, and the peculiar elemental creatures which emerge from Finn's domain: bodies containing no blood, only water and air.
On Tye's (1995) view, for example, pains are mental representations of bodily parts and the phenomenal experience of a pain is the nonconceptual content of the bodily representation.
Since we wished subjects to retain a bodily representation during the delay, rather than immediately recoding the distance between the first two touched fingers into a purely numerical form, we also included 20% of randomly intermingled trials in which subjects were prompted whether any of the fingers touched was common to both hands.
In contrast, the group that showed sensitivity to the static self-face (i.e., pITG, aSMG, and oIFG) may be related to the bodily representation of the self-face that was established after this learning process.
Both groups of regions overlap with the areas that receive vestibular input (Smith et al. 2012; zu Eulenburg et al., 2012), which is highly relevant to bodily representation of self-face, as well as its acquisition process.
We attributed the neural response to the figurative cue in the right pITG, aSMG, and oIFG to the bodily representation of the self-face acquired through the experience of contingency testing during infancy.
This should lead to unusual experiences as further visuotactile conflict is resolved on the basis of false bodily self-representation.
The putative neuronal counterpart of such an interpersonal bodily space representation has been provided by Ishida et al. [24].
The ease with which odd perceptual phenomena can be induced, at least subsequent to basic illusion onset, in the present study challenges the presumption that a robust bodily self-representation or body-image plays a significant role for multisensory processing.
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