Sliding perspectives: dissociating ownership from self-location during full body illusions in virtual reality.

ABSTRACT: Bodily illusions have been used to study bodily self-consciousness and disentangle its various components, among other the sense of ownership and self-location. Congruent multimodal correlations between the real body and a fake humanoid body can in fact trigger the illusion that the fake body is one's own and/or disrupt the unity between the perceived self-location and the position of the physical body. However, the extent to which changes in self-location entail changes in ownership is still matter of debate. Here we address this problem with the support of immersive virtual reality. Congruent visuotactile stimulation was delivered on healthy participants to trigger full body illusions from different visual perspectives, each resulting in a different degree of overlap between real and vir

SUBMITTER: Maselli A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4161166 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature