ABSTRACT
Under natural conditions, actual body movements result in simultaneous activation of various sensory systems including mainly touch, muscle proprioception, and vision. By reporting recent behavioural, neurophysiological, computational, and neuroimaging studies, the present review sheds some light on how these different sources of information have to be merged to form a coherent and reliable percept of our own movements, the rules of the underlying multisensory integration processes, and where these mechanisms take place in the brain. It provides convincing evidence that our brain takes advantage of multisensory information to improve the perception of our own body in movement.
