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SUMMARY:Losing Touch With Your Body: Clinical and Experimentally-Induced S
 tates of Body Disownership -  Professor Bigna Lenggenhager\, University of
  Zurich\, Switzerland
DTSTART:20210521T153000Z
DTEND:20210521T170000Z
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CONTACT:Matthew Attwaters
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The seemingly stable construct of our bodily self de
 pends on the continued\, successful integration of multisensory feedback a
 bout our body\, rather than its purely physical composition. Empirical evi
 dence suggests that using multisensory stimulation paradigms\, healthy ind
 ividuals can embody external and supernumerary body parts or full bodies\,
  even if they are very different from their own body. The sense of a bodil
 y self is thus thought to be plastic and easily extendable towards externa
 l objects. Yet\, pathologies of embodiment often involve an altered sense 
 of ownership towards one’s own physical body rather than towards externa
 l objects. Such psychiatric and neurological disorders might include a fee
 ling of disembodiment or disownership\, which might even lead to the desir
 e to amputate a healthy limb. In this talk I will present combined evidenc
 e from recent clinical and empirical experiments to shed further light on 
 underlying processes of disownership and disembodiment. I will discuss the
  relevance of these findings for current theories of body ownership and em
 bodiment as well as for potential clinical considerations and applications
 .
LOCATION:Zoom meeting
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