Tactile information counteracts the attenuation of rubber hand illusion attributable to increased visuo-proprioceptive divergence.

ABSTRACT: Sense of body ownership is an immediate and distinct experience of one's body as belonging to oneself. While it is well-recognized that ownership feelings emerge from the integration of visual and somatosensory signals, the principles upon which they are integrated are still intensely debated. Here, we used the rubber hand illusion (RHI) to examine how the interplay of visual, tactile, and proprioceptive signals is governed depending on their spatiotemporal properties. For this purpose, the RHI was elicited in different conditions varying with respect to the extent of visuo-proprioceptive divergence (i.e., the distance between the real and fake hands) and differing in terms of the availability and spatiotemporal complexity of tactile stimulation (none, simple, or complex). We expected that

SUBMITTER: Litwin P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7773248 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature