iScience, suggest that this close tie between our psychological and physical sense of self is also involved in functions like memory.
In fact, when our mental self-concept doesn’t match our physical self, our memory can become impaired.“As a child, I liked to imagine what it would be like to one day wake up in someone else’s body,” said first author Dr.
Pawel Tacikowski, a postdoctoral researcher at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. “Many kids probably have those fantasies, and I guess I’ve never grown out of it —I just turned it into my job.”Researchers from the Brain, Body, and Self Laboratory led by Henrik Ehrsson outfitted pairs of friends with goggles showing live feeds of the other person’s body from a first-person perspective.To.
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