Body ownership gates tactile awareness by reshaping the somatosensory functional connectivity.

ABSTRACT: We all likely agree that tactile experience contributes to the emergence of the feeling of ownership over one's own body. Is the opposite true? We answered this question by testing whether and how the sense of body ownership gates our tactile experience. In two experiments, we exploited a well-known multisensory illusion (Rubber Hand Illusion) to induce participants to feel a fake hand as belonging to their body, while their own hand was left in a disembodiment state (illusory-phases). After each illusory phase, a tactile stimulus was delivered to either the fake (embodied) hand or the real (disembodied) hand (testing-phases). Experiment 1 shows that the illusory phase significantly modulates the subjective feeling of touch experienced in the testing-phase, increasing tactile sensations wh

SUBMITTER: Pisoni A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12745685 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature