Secretariat, Alumni Association, IDAC
Date	Thursday, 16 January 2020, 16:00～
Room	Seminar Room,Center for Smart Aging Research 2F, IDAC
Title	At the root of bodily self-consciousness.
Speaker	Lorenzo Pia, Associate Professor
Affiliation	Department of Psychology, University of Turin (Italy)
Organizer	Dalila Burin (Smart Ageing International Research Center・ext 8585)
Abstract	Human self-awareness is rooted on the feeling that the physical body belongs to us (body ownership) and that we intend and control its movements (sense of agency). How those two neurocognitive mechanisms interact and whether they share some common mechanism are still open questions. By means of behavior, physiology (e.g., EEG, TMS) and Immersive Virtual Reality, I will try to address this problem. I will start investigating the possible link between the two senses with a correlation approach. Then, I will discuss studies focused on how body ownership affects sense of agency. Thirdly, I will present data around the opposite interaction (i.e., how sense of agency might affect body ownership). At the end, I will attempt to provide a unique frame of reference for ownership and agency able to explain the coherence and the unity of bodily self-consciousness.