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Review

The Body in a Multisensory World

Tobias Heed, Brigitte Röder
Micah M. Murray  1 , Mark T. Wallace  2
, editors.
In: The Neural Bases of Multisensory Processes. Boca Raton (FL): CRC Press/Taylor & Francis; 2012. Chapter 28.
Frontiers in Neuroscience.
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The Body in a Multisensory World

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The focus of this chapter will be on the importance of multisensory processing for representing the body, as well as on the role of body representations for multisensory processing. On one hand, one can investigate how the body schema is constructed and represented in the brain, and Section 28.2 will illustrate that the body schema emerges from the interaction of multiple sensory modalities. For this very reason, one can, on the other hand, ask how multisensory interactions between the senses are influenced by the fact that the brain commands a body. Section 28.3, therefore, will present research on how the body schema is important in multisensory interactions, especially for spatial processing.

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