Body schema and body image [electronic resource] : new directions / edited by Yochai Ataria, Shogo Tanaka, Shaun Gallagher.

Body schema is a system of sensory-motor capacities that function without awareness or the necessity of perceptual monitoring. Body image consists of a system of perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs pertaining to one's own body. In 2005 Shaun Gallagher published an influential book entitled How the B...

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