Self-construction — Onur Güntürkün / Serious Science

Neuroscientist Onur Güntürkün on depersonalization, the rubber hand illusion and how synchronous nerve impulses create the feeling that your body is your body.

'We are born with a body in our brain, and this body in our brain has a certain stability over life. But when we sometimes have a major brain injury, we can think that this is no longer our arm or hand, and when we speak the language of the brain which is synchronicity, we can alter the body map of our body within seconds.'
Onur Güntürkün, Professor for Biopsychology at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

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[Hassan-sevx]

Thank you so much for this video. I think it will be better when he mentioned that to some experiments to divide the screen and show them in one part and he in the other part. I hope more and more interview with him.

[MisterNohbdy]

When people in sports say you have to "Treat the bat/racket/etc as an extension of your body", I guess there's some truth to that idea after all. (The vibrations from impact when hitting a ball should create a similar feeling of synchronous feedback.)

[TheTwick]

Can’t hear some of his talk. Bad audio. Too low.