The sense of body ownership relaxes temporal constraints for multisensory integration.

ABSTRACT: Experimental work on body ownership illusions showed how simple multisensory manipulation can generate the illusory experience of an artificial limb as being part of the own-body. This work highlighted how own-body perception relies on a plastic brain representation emerging from multisensory integration. The flexibility of this representation is reflected in the short-term modulations of physiological states and perceptual processing observed during these illusions. Here, we explore the impact of ownership illusions on the temporal dimension of multisensory integration. We show that, during the illusion, the temporal window for integrating touch on the physical body with touch seen on a virtual body representation, increases with respect to integration with visual events seen close but se

SUBMITTER: Maselli A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4971486 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature