1 Introduction
1.1 The active self and the sense of agency
1.2 The body schema and the peripersonal space
1.3 Developmental processes of emergent selfhood and body awareness
1.4 Related work
2 Development of the body schema, peripersonal space, and the sense of agency in humans
2.2 Emergence of sense of agency
2.3 Development of the peripersonal space
3 Computational and robotic models of body schema and PPS representations
3.1 Properties and function of the body schema representation
3.2 Computational and robotic models of the body schema
3.3 Peripersonal space as a brain’s representation of the dynamic interface between the body and the environment
3.4 Computational and robotic models of PPS
4 The active self
4.1 The self in humans
4.2 Robotic models of the active self
5 Discussion
5.1 From biological agents to artificial agents
5.2 A conceptual sketch for the development of an artificial minimal self
5.3 Towards modelling a self with higher cognitive functions