Evaluating Bodily Self-Consciousness and the Brain Using Multisensory Perturbation and fMRI (Advance Article)

Source:Page Count 13In this article, we consider the usefulness of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and perturbation in evaluating causal relationships between bodily self-consciousness and the brain. We argue that fMRI research is not always restricted to correlational statements when it is combined with perturbation techniques and can sometimes permit some degree of causal inferencing, such as when bodily illusions are examined with fMRI. In these instances, one is changing a participant ’s conscious bodily self by experimentally perturbing mechanisms that are involved in multisensory integration.

Source: Multisensory research - April 21, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Philippe  A. Chouinard, Joshua A. Sherman, Amy Siobhan Millard and Irene Sperandio Source Type: research