The Relationship Between Referral of Touch and the Feeling of Ownership in the Rubber Hand Illusion.

ABSTRACT: The rubber hand illusion (RHI) is one of the most commonly used paradigms to examine the sense of body ownership. Touches are synchronously applied to the real hand, hidden from view, and a false hand in an anatomically congruent position. During the illusion one may perceive that the feeling of touch arises from the false hand (referral of touch), and that the false hand is one's own. The relationship between referral of touch and body ownership in the illusion is unclear, and some articles average responses to statements addressing these experiences, which may be inappropriate depending on the research question of interest. To address these concerns, we re-analyzed three freely available datasets to better understand the relationship between referral of touch and feeling of ownership in

SUBMITTER: Reader AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7904681 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature