Australian researchers have shown that along with the sense of touch and vision, signalling receptors in the muscles and joints also play a critical role. The finding, published recently in the Journal of Physiology, will help in designing treatments for disorders of body ownership that can occur with conditions such as stroke and epilepsy.
Lead author Lee Walsh, of Neuroscience Research Australia, explained we instinctively know our body parts 'belong' to us. However, how the brain develops that map of what belongs to it is still in part unknown."
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