The Tilted Self: Visuo-Graviceptive Mismatch in the Full-Body Illusion.

ABSTRACT: The bodily self is a fundamental part of human self-consciousness and relies on online multimodal information and prior beliefs about one's own body. While the contribution of the vestibular system in this process remains under-investigated, it has been theorized to be important. The present experiment investigates the influence of conflicting gravity-related visual and bodily information on the sense of a body and, vice versa, the influence of altered embodiment on verticality and own-body orientation perception. In a full-body illusion setup, participants saw in a head-mounted display a projection of their own body 2 m in front of them, on which they saw a tactile stimulation on their back displayed either synchronously or asynchronously. By tilting the seen body to one side, an addition

SUBMITTER: Thur C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6517513 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature