Bend your head forward and look down at your body. You see two arms, two legs, a stomach and a chest. But how does the brain actually understand that this body is your own? In our research project, we will use the most advanced brain imaging and brain stimulation techniques to answer this question. Our hypothesis is that the whole-body experience is created by two parallel cerebral cortex mechanisms. Signals from vision, touch and muscle sense are integrated in specific areas of the frontal lobe and the association cortex of the temporal lobe to create the experience of a single coherent body, while processes in the temporal lobe generate signals about the location of this body in space. We will then go on to show that this internal brain representation of the body affects episode memory - one of our most important higher cognitive functions. Our hypothesis is that episode memory requires us to have a functioning whole-body experience, and that disturbances in this, such as in "out-of-body experiences", lead to disturbed memory storage by affecting the temporal lobe memory area. In summary, our results will provide a groundbreaking description of the cortex mechanisms underlying whole-body spatial perception, and also demonstrate for the first time that this perception affects our episodic memory. These results could lead to important new advances in applied research on virtual reality, cognitive psychiatry and advanced prosthetics.