ABSTRACT
The sense of body ownership is a fundamental aspect of bodily self-consciousness. However, the sense of body ownership can become severely disturbed following brain injury. In this chapter we discuss how a disturbed sensation of limb ownership (DSO) has been studied in patients with right-hemisphere stroke, covering key aspects of its definition, clinical presentation, neuropsychological explanations, and neuroanatomical bases. After reviewing existing research and theory, we introduce and provide empirical evidence for a contemporary account of DSO, which proposes that disownership occurs when brain damage prevents beliefs about the body from being updated, particularly in spatial and social contexts that require salience to be placed on new sensory signals.
