Abstract. Religious belief systems shape human experience of the self and the world, yet their influence on the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying bodily

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As part of Brain Awareness Week 2026, the Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology (FESN) is hosting a free online talk exploring the neuropsychology of criminal behaviour. 🎤 Speaker: ...

Dear all, You are cordially invited to the next NEURO-Connect seminar, which will take place on March 3rd at 12:15 in the H8-01-D at Campus Biotech. The next session will be hosted by HUG. The speaker...

Skin temperature and the ability to perceive warm and cold thermal stimuli (i.e., thermoception) are fundamental to human survival, influencing both our evolutionary history and early individual development. Interestingly, recent research has also started to uncover the role of these thermosensory signals in cognition. Such signals may contribute to the construction of our bodily self-awareness, and specifically the sense of body ownership, which is defined as the feeling that the body and its parts belong to us. This review examines how thermosensory signals travel from the skin to the brain and their impact on body ownership in both healthy and clinical populations. Furthermore, we propose mechanisms that may underlie this interaction and highlight potential clinical and societal applications.

Changes in skin temperature play a key role in how strongly we experience our bodies as our own.

Salvato et al. report that proprioceptive deficits predict both disturbed sensation of ownership and anosognosia for hemiplegia following right-hemisphere

Scientific Reports - Bodily maps of exercise-induced feelings

Responsive social exchanges are critical for infants' bio-behavioural regulation and healthy development. Parental smartphone use may disrupt early pa…

This chapter explores the insula's role in shaping body image through interoception - the neural process of sensing, interpreting, and integrating internal bodily signals to facilitate a coherent sens...

Translational Psychiatry - Dissociations between bodily self-awareness components in women with Anorexia Nervosa

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Salvato et al. reveal that thermosensory signals may play a role in bodily self-awareness. Their study on right-brain stroke patients highlights behavioural and neural contribution of temperature and ...

How the brain routinely processes information from different sensory modalities during everyday tasks is not well understood. In this Perspective, Engel and Senkowski propose how oscillatory neural me...

Abstract. Anger can be deconstructed into distinct components: a tendency to outwardly express it (anger-out) and the capability to manage it (anger control). These aspects exhibit individual differen...

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Scientific Reports - Exploring the relationship between cardiac awareness and balance