Psychometric properties of the embodiment scale for the rubber hand illusion and its relation with individual differences.

ABSTRACT: The Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) opened the investigation of the sense of body ownership in healthy people. By putting in slight contrast vision touch and proprioception, healthy people embody a fake hand in one's body representation. The easiness of the procedure, typically measured with a set of questions that capture the subjective experience, favoured its blooming. However, validation studies of embodiment questionnaires are lacking, and the individual differences that contribute to the embodiment received little attention. In our study, 298 participants underwent an RHI procedure following both synchronous and asynchronous (control) visuo-tactile stimulations. The study had multiple aims: (a) to explore the psychometric structure of a 27-items questionnaire largely used in the literatur

SUBMITTER: Romano D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7930179 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature