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Science 6 August 2004:
Vol. 305. no. 5685, pp. 782 - 783
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101836
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Probing the Neural Basis of Body Ownership

Matthew Botvinick

How do we distinguish our bodies from other objects and know that our body parts belong to us? In his Perspective, Botvinick explains intriguing new data (Ehrsson et al.) showing that the feeling of body ownership depends on activation of premotor cortex neurons and their ability to integrate diverse sensory information (visual, tactile, and proprioceptive) from our body parts.

The author is at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 10104-6241, USA. E-mail: mmb{at}mail.med.upenn.edu

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