Lab Introduction & Major Research Interests
I study self-consciousness from the interdisciplinary perspective. I articulate the distinction between self-as-object and self-as-subject in terms of the distinction between body ownership and experiential ownership. Body ownership concerns whether a body part or a full body belongs to me. Experiential ownership concerns whether from the first-person point of view I represent myself as the unique subject of a conscious experience. In the NeuroPhilosophy Lab (http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~yiliang/neurophilosophy/eng/lab.html), my students and I investigate the relationship between body and the self, including self-location, 1PP-location, double-body effect, misrepresentation of experiential ownership, etc. We have recently designed experiments to induce new types of bodily illusions, for example, “self-touching illusion” and “four-hand illusion”.
Recent Representative Publication ( * corresponding author)
1.Liang C*, Lee Y-T, Chen W-Y, Huang H-C (2018). Body-as-subject in the four-hand illusion. Frontiers in Psychology, research topic: Philosophical and Ethical Aspects of a Science of Consciousness and the Self, 9:1710. (SSCI).
2. Chen W-Y, Huang H-C, Lee Y-T, Liang C* (2018). Body ownership and the four-hand illusion. Scientific Reports, 8:2153, 1-18. (SCI).
3. Huang H-C, Lee Y-T, Chen W-Y and Liang C* (2017). The Sense of 1PP-Location Contributes to Shaping the Perceived Self-Location Together with the Sense of Body-Location. Frontiers in Psychology. 8:370. (SSCI).
4. Liang C. (2016). Self-as-Subject and Experiential Ownership. Open MIND: Philosophy and the Mind Sciences in the 21st Century. London, England: The MIT Press. 2016: Volume 2, 957-975.
5. Liang C. (2016). Can Experiential Ownership Violate the Immunity Principle? Open MIND: Philosophy and the Mind Sciences in the 21st Century. London, England: The MIT Press. 2016: Volume 2, 991- 996.
6. Liang C*, Chang S-Y, Chen W-Y, Huang H-C and Lee Y-T (2015). Body Ownership and Experiential Ownership in the Self-Touching Illusion. Frontiers in Psychology. 5:1591.(SSCI).