Explaining Away the Body: Experiences of Supernaturally Caused Touch and Touch on Non-Hand Objects within the Rubber Hand Illusion

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009416
• Publication Date: 2010-02-23T17:56:17Z
• Authors: Jakob Hohwy; Bryan Paton
• Keywords: Body schema

In rubber hand illusions and full body illusions, touch sensations are projected to non-body objects such as hands, dolls or virtual bodies. The robustness, limits further perceptual consequences of not yet fully explored understood. A number experiments reported that test the a variant illusion.A illusion is explored, in which real foreign hands aligned personal space. presence ascertained with participants' scores temperature changes arm. This generates basic Participants presented further, unusual visuotactile stimuli subsequent onset illusion. Such stimulation found generate very experiences supernatural on non-hand object. finding object conflicts prior findings, resolve this conflict hypothesis successfully tested: without experience does occur.A can arise when arm persists through periods no tactile strong enough allow felt cardboard box produced at distance, if by causation. These findings suggest one's visual image explained away during they may be importance understanding role delusion formation. help reconcile conflicting results area research. addition, new evidence provided relates recently discovered psychologically induced occur