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Body And Self-Perception Effects

A perceptual phenomenon centered on how a person perceives their own body, its position, its boundaries or its ownership, distinct from an external sensory judgment because the object being perceived is the perceiver's own physical self. This group gathers the body and self-perception phenomena recorded for this atlas, covering documented effects in proprioception, bodily self-awareness and the sense of owning and controlling one's own body and its parts.

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1. Wikipedia: Proprioception
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Proprioception is the sense of self-movement, force, and body position.
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