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 th
Body Image and Body Schema: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Body
โ Scribed by Helena De Preester, Veroniek Knockaert
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publlshing Company
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 357
- Series
- Advances in Consciousness Research 62
- Category
- Library
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