Lenggenhager, BignaHalje, PärBlanke, Olaf2011-03-162011-03-162011-03-16201110.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07647.xhttps://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/65400WOS:000290628900019Neuroscience of the self has focused on high-level mechanisms related to language, memory or imagery of the self. However, recent evidence suggests that low-level mechanisms such as multisensory and sensorimotor integration may play a fundamental role in self-related processing. Here we used virtual reality technology and visuo-tactile conflict to study such low-level mechanisms and manipulate where participants experienced their self to be localized (self-location). Frequency analysis and electrical neuroimaging of co-recorded high-resolution electroencephalography revealed body-specific alpha band power modulations in bilateral sensorimotor cortices. Furthermore, alpha power in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) was correlated with the degree of experimentally manipulated self-location. We argue that these alpha oscillations in sensorimotor cortex and mPFC reflect self-location as manipulated through multisensory conflict.frequency analysismedial prefrontal cortexmultisensory integrationmu-rhythmperipersonal spacetext::journal::journal article::research article