Multisensory Integration Dominates Hypnotisability and Expectations in the Rubber Hand Illusion.

ABSTRACT: Some recent papers by P. Lush and colleagues have argued that the rubber hand illusion (RHI), where participants can feel a rubber hand as their own under appropriate multisensory stimulation, may be caused mainly by hypnotic suggestibility and expectations (demand characteristics). These papers rely primarily on a study with 353 participants who took part in a RHI experiment carried out in a classical way with brush stroking. Participants experienced a synchronous condition where the rubber hand was seen to be touched in synchrony with touch felt on their corresponding hidden real hand, or the touches were applied asynchronously as a control. Each participant had a related measure of their hypnotisability on a scale known as the Sussex-Waterloo Scale of Hypnotisability (SWASH). The author

SUBMITTER: Slater M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9244625 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature