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The Influence of Embodiment as a Cartoon Character on Public Speaking Anxiety
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021 Virtual Reality can be used to embody people in different types of body—so that when they look towards themselves or in a mirror they will see a life-sized virtual body instead of their own, and that moves with their own movements.
Anna I. Bellido Rivas +7 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 The rubber hand illusion refers to the observation that participants perceive body ownership for a rubber hand if it moves, or is stroked in synchrony with the participant’s real (covered) hand.
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 The experience of owning a body is built upon the integration of exteroceptive, interoceptive, and proprioceptive signals. Recently, it has been suggested that motor signals could be particularly important in producing the feeling of body part ownership.
Damiano Crivelli +9 more
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What colour is my arm? Changes in skin colour of an embodied virtual arm modulates pain threshold
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 It has been demonstrated that visual inputs can modulate pain. However, the influence of skin colour on pain perception is unknown. Red skin is associated to inflamed, hot and more sensitive skin while blue is associated to cold. We aimed to test whether
Matteo eMartini +6 more
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Bliss in and Out of the Body: The (Extra)Corporeal Space Is Impervious to Social Pleasant Touch
Brain Sciences, 2021 Slow, gentle stimulation of hairy skin is generally accompanied by hedonic sensations. This phenomenon, also known as (positive) affective touch, is likely to be the basis of affiliative interactions with conspecifics by promoting inter-individual ...
Chiara Spaccasassi +2 more
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Bodily pleasure matters: Velocity of touch modulates body ownership during the rubber hand illusion
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 The sense of body ownership represents a fundamental aspect of our self-consciousness. Influential experimental paradigms, such as the rubber hand illusion (RHI), in which a seen rubber hand is experienced as part of one’s body when one’s own unseen hand
Laura eCrucianelli +3 more
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Decreased corticospinal excitability after the illusion of missing part of the arm [PDF]
, 2016 Previous studies on body ownership illusions have shown that under certain multimodal conditions, healthy people can experience artificial body-parts as if they were part of their own body, with direct physiological consequences for the real limb that ...
Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells +76 more
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Visuotactile integration modulates motor performance in a perceptual decision-making task
Scientific Reports, 2017 Body ownership is critically dependent on multimodal integration as for instance revealed in the Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) and a number of studies which have addressed the neural correlates of the processes underlying this phenomenon.
Klaudia Grechuta +4 more
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The Architectonic Experience of Body and Space in Augmented Interiors
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The environment shapes our experience of space in constant interaction with the body. Architectonic interiors amplify the perception of space through the bodily senses; an effect also known as embodiment.
Isabella Pasqualini +10 more
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The contribution of real-time mirror reflections of motor actions on virtual body ownership in an immersive virtual environment [PDF]
, 2014 This paper reports an experiment that investigated people"s body ownership of an avatar that was observed in a virtual mirror. Twenty subjects were recruited in a within-groups study where 10 first experienced a virtual character that synchronously ...
González Franco, Mar +3 more
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