Since Berlucchi and Aglioti's seminal review 'The Body in the Brain' in 1997, research into the representation of the body has expanded and new experimental paradigms and approaches have been developed. This special issue of Experimental Brain Research has emerged from a series of workshops on Body Representation over the past 4 years, which have taken a broad view of what constitutes body representation. This breadth reflects the multiple purposes and effects of representing one's own body, and those of other people. To illustrate this, the quote above describes how a doctor's perception of his own body is influenced not just by current sensory input, but also by his knowledge of his own body and the symptoms he has observed in other people.
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