CGSC 2002- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 50 pages long!)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 2002
• Professor: Dr. Nadiya Slobodenyuk

Document Summary

Edmund husserl (1859 1938), the founder of phenomenology: k rper (objective body or body-as-object) and leib (the lived body or body-as-subject) The complexity of the relationship between the body and the self is reflected in the multitude of ontological, ethical, and psychological questions about the body. Immediate experience of the body when we focus on body part/body as a whole. Proprioception, kinesthetic processing, visual and tactile information. Experience of the presence and ownership of non-existing body parts (phantom limbs) Fading limbs (patient is unaware of the existing limb unless it can be seen) Body ownership in general population is also malleable: Experience of ownership over alien entities (rubber hand illusion) Rubber hand illusion is central to research on body ownership because it can be observed in non-clinical populations which allows reducing the possibility of confounding variables such as comorbid mental conditions.