Sense of ownership


Sense of ownership, in psychology, is the feeling of identifying sensations as affecting, establishing, and belonging to one's identified-self. and is the pre-reflective awareness or implicit sense that one is the owner of an action, movement or thought.
In non-pathological experience, the SoO is tightly integrated with one's "sense of agency".
At least three different types of bodily self-experiences can be experimentally identified as separable processes: self-identification, self-location, and first person-perspective.

Self-identification

Evidence for self-identification of body-ownership comes from cases of Body integrity dysphoria where affected individuals feel 'alienation' or over-completeness over parts of their body, and somatoparaphrenia where affected individuals' deny ownership to a part or to an entire section of their body. Research from Dilk, M.T. show associated brain areas of the premotor cortex with non-identification of body parts.

Self-location

There is a large body of evidence suggesting the Temporoparietal junction influences body location: evidence comes from brain stimulation at the TPJ and associated out of body experiences.