Influence of the Body Schema on Multisensory Integration: Evidence from the Mirror Box Illusion.

ABSTRACT: When placing one hand on each side of a mirror and making synchronous bimanual movements, the mirror-reflected hand feels like one's own hand that is hidden behind the mirror. We developed a novel mirror box illusion to investigate whether motoric, but not spatial, visuomotor congruence is sufficient for inducing multisensory integration, and importantly, if biomechanical constraints encoded in the body schema influence multisensory integration. Participants placed their hands in a mirror box in opposite postures (palm up, palm down), creating a conflict between visual and proprioceptive feedback for the hand behind the mirror. After synchronous bimanual hand movements in which the viewed and felt movements were motorically congruent but spatially in the opposite direction, participants fe

SUBMITTER: Liu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5506044 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature