Title |
Hands only illusion: multisensory integration elicits sense of ownership for body parts but not for non-corporeal objects
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Published in |
Experimental Brain Research, October 2009
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DOI | 10.1007/s00221-009-2039-3 |
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Authors |
Manos Tsakiris, Lewis Carpenter, Dafydd James, Aikaterini Fotopoulou |
Abstract |
The experience of body ownership can be successfully manipulated during the rubber hand illusion using synchronous multisensory stimulation. The hypothesis that multisensory integration is both a necessary and sufficient condition for body ownership is debated. We systematically varied the appearance of the object that was stimulated in synchrony or asynchrony with the participant's hand. A viewed object that was transformed in three stages from a plain wooden block to a wooden hand was compared to a realistic rubber hand. Introspective and behavioural results show that participants experience a sense of ownership only for the realistic prosthetic hand, suggesting that not all objects can be experienced as part of one's body. Instead, the viewed object must fit with a reference model of the body that contains important structural information about body parts. This body model can distinguish between corporeal and non-corporeal objects, and it therefore plays a critical role in maintaining a coherent sense of one's body. |
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