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New reflections on agency and body ownership : The moving rubber hand illusion in the mirror [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
No previous study has simultaneously examined body ownership and agency in healthy subjects during mirror self-observation. We used a moving rubber hand illusion to examine how both body ownership and agency are affected by seeing (i) the body moving in ...
Jenkinson, Paul, Preston, Catherine
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The virtual-hand illusion: Effects of impact and threat on perceived ownership and affective resonance

open access: yesFrontiers 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.
Ke eMa   +3 more
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Bliss in and Out of the Body: The (Extra)Corporeal Space Is Impervious to Social Pleasant Touch

open access: yesBrain 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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Drumming in immersive virtual reality: the body shapes the way we play [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
It has been shown that it is possible to generate perceptual illusions of ownership in immersive virtual reality (IVR) over a virtual body seen from first person perspective, in other words over a body that visually substitutes the person's real body ...
Bergstrom, Ilias   +2 more
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What colour is my arm? Changes in skin colour of an embodied virtual arm modulates pain threshold

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Bodily pleasure matters: Velocity of touch modulates body ownership during the rubber hand illusion

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Visuotactile integration modulates motor performance in a perceptual decision-making task

open access: yesScientific 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

open access: yesFrontiers 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]

open access: yes, 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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Transcending the Self – the Illusion of Body Ownership in Immersive Virtual Reality and its Impact on Behaviour

open access: yesi-Perception, 2011
Virtual reality in various forms has been around for about 40 years. It has been considered mainly as a technology that can be used to generate the illusion of a transformation of place.
Mel Slater
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