Adaptive and Maladaptive Bodily Awareness: Distinguishing Interoceptive Sensibility and Interoceptive Attention from Anxiety‐Induced Somatization in Autism and Alexithymia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic A. Trevisan ◽  
Wolf E. Mehling ◽  
James C. McPartland
Keyword(s):  
Bodily Awareness

Bodily Awareness and Self-Consciousness

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Bermúdez
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Basic Form ◽  
Bodily Awareness ◽  
Person Pronoun ◽  
Spatial Content

We are embodied, and we are aware of our bodies ‘from the inside’ through different forms of bodily awareness. But what is the relation between these two facts? Are these forms of bodily awareness types of self-consciousness, on a par, say, with introspection? In this paper I argue that bodily awareness is a basic form of self-consciousness, through which perceiving agents are directly conscious of the bodily self. The first two sections clarify the nature of bodily awareness. Sections III to V I explore how bodily awareness functions as a form of self-consciousness and how this is connected to the property of being immune to error through misidentification relative to the first person pronoun. In section IV I consider, and remain unconvinced by, an argument to the effect that bodily awareness cannot have first person content (and hence cannot count as a form of self-consciousness). Finally, section V sketches out an account of the spatial content of bodily awareness and explores the particular type of awareness of the bodily self that it provides.

The experience of life after burn injury: a new bodily awareness

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asgjerd Litleré Moi ◽  
Hallvard Andreas Vindenes ◽  
Eva Gjengedal
Keyword(s):  
Burn Injury ◽  
Bodily Awareness

Annie Payson Call's Training in Release and Somatic Imagination

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiie Saumaa
Keyword(s):  
Prolific Author ◽  
Movement Experience ◽  
Bodily Awareness ◽  
Muscular Tension ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Somatic Education ◽  
And Training ◽  
Shed Light

This article examines the work of Annie Payson Call (1853–1940) who was during her lifetime a highly regarded teacher of her method of bodily education and a prolific author. I place Call's work against the background of American Delsartism, the flourishing of health movements, and innovations in dance forms of the period. I suggest that Call, a now forgotten figure, can be seen as a contributor to a lineage in American approaches to movement that place bodily awareness and sensory knowledge at the heart of movement experience and training. The first half of the article introduces the reader to key concepts in Call's movement philosophy and outlines her method of training bodily awareness and releasing muscular tension. The second part looks at characteristics of Call's writing to shed light on the hereto neglected aspect of somatics and somatic education: the role of language and imagination in writings about movement.

A hemispheric asymmetry in somatosensory processing

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Vallar
Keyword(s):  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Premotor Cortex ◽  
Specific Aspect ◽  
The Body ◽  
Somatosensory Processing ◽  
Perceptual Awareness ◽  
Bodily Awareness ◽  
Feature Processing ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Neuropsychological Evidence

AbstractThe model presented in the target article includes feature processing and higher representations. I argue, based on neuropsychological evidence, that spatial representations are also involved in perceptual awareness of somatosensory events. Second, there is an asymmetry, with a right-hemisphere–based bilateral representation of the body. Third, the specific aspect of bodily awareness concerning motor function monitoring involves a network that includes the premotor cortex.

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