Multisensory integration and belief in the self

Frontiers in Psychology

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Rafael Bretas¹  Banty Tia¹  Yumiko Yamazaki¹  Atsushi Iriki¹ 

[1] Laboratory for Symbolic Cognitive Development, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research

关键词: Somatosensory integration;    Mirror self recognition;    Conscioussness;    Credition;    beliefs;    parietal cortex;    self recognition;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2022.983592

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Our first experience of the world originates from the information we receive through the senses, allowing us to make mental representations of the features that can be experienced from each part of the environment—be those objects, events, places, or beings. However, these parts are not perceived separately through each sense. Rather, sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste are integrated early in life in multimodal areas in the brain (Lewis and Essen, 2000). While this process, together with memory, supports the formation of beliefs of increasing complexity, it is also constantly modified by those same beliefs. In this opinion paper we briefly describe some of the neural underpinnings of conscious perception and illustrate how a complex belief is formed from sensory information using the example of mirror self-recognition in macaques.

【 授权许可】

CC BY