Cross-referenced body and action for the unified self: Empirical, developmental, and clinical perspectives
Cross-referenced body and action for the unified self: Empirical, developmental, and clinical perspectives
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统一自我的交叉参考身体和行动:经验、发展和临床观点
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780198851721.003.0012
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2021
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Imaizumi;S.;Asai;T.;& Miyazaki;M.
To interact with the environment and others, we possess the body, through which we perform actions. The mental representation of the body acts as an interface between our body and the external world and consists of two distinctive aspects: body image and body schema. Body image refers to our conscious image of the body through perceptual experience and conceptual understanding, whereas body schema refers to unconscious systems that enable motor actions and postural control by coordinating body parts (Gallagher, 2005; Gallagher & Cole, 1995). We must be aware of our body and its actions to distinguish ourselves from the environment and external agents. As such, self-consciousness or self-representation could be generated in the brain led by, and/or correlating with, body representation. Self-representation also has distinctive (but interactive) components: the senses of body ownership, a feeling of self-attribution of one’s body parts, and agency, a feeling of initiating and controlling one’s actions (Gallagher, 2000; 2005). Therefore, it can be assumed that the body is an omnipresent source of perceptual and conceptual bodily experience (ie, body image) and can generate a sense of body ownership. Moreover, motor actions are implicitly guided by body schema and, consequently, can generate a sense of agency over these actions. This chapter will discuss how our self-representation emerges through our body, which is a source of body image, and through bodily action, which originates from body schema. The discussion is based on empirical literature on healthy and psychiatric adults and furthermore attempts to illustrate the emergence, loss, and re-emergence of self-representation by integrating findings from young children and adult amputees.