1st Edition

Sensation of Movement

Edited By Thor Grünbaum, Mark Schram Christensen Copyright 2018
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

Sensation of Movement explores the role of sensation in motor control, bodily self-recognition and sense of agency. The sensation of movement is dependent on a range of information received by the brain, from signalling in the peripheral sensory organs to the establishment of higher order goals. Through the integration of neuroscientific knowledge with psychological and philosophical... Read more

Acknowledgements   List of figures and tables   List of contributors   Sensation of movement: An introduction, Thor Grünbaum and Mark Schram Christensen   Part I. The content of sensations of movement   I am moving my hand. Ownership, agency, and the body, Andreas Kalckert   Is there a bodily experience of agency?, Myrto Mylopoulos  Part II. Experimenting with agency: Measurements and designs   Measuring sensation of movement, Mads Jensen, Mia Dong, Mikkel C. Vinding, and Morten Overgaard   Sense of moving. Moving closer to the movement, Mark Schram Christensen and Thor Grünbaum   Part III. Functions of sensations of movement   Sensation of movement. A multimodal perception, Anne Kavounoudias    Distorted body representations and skilled action, Matthew R. Longo   A puzzle about the function of proprioception in Action,  Hong Yu Wong  Index

Biography

Thor Grünbaum is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication at the University of Copenhagen.

Mark Schram Christensen is an Associate Professor in Cognitive Motor Neuroscience in the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen. He is also a Senior Researcher at DTU Compute in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Denmark.