ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2016
The Rubber Tail Illusion as Evidence of Body Ownership in Mice.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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- The rubber hand illusion induced by visual-thermal stimulation.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Body ownership and agency altered by an electromyographically controlled robotic arm.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Explaining Delusions: Reducing Uncertainty Through Basic and Computational Neuroscience.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2017Review
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- Timing disownership experiences in the rubber hand illusion.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2017Article
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Abstract
The ownership of one's body parts represents a fundamental aspect of self-consciousness. Accumulating empirical evidence supports the existence of this concept in humans and nonhuman primates, but it is unclear whether nonprimate mammals experience similar feelings. Therefore, the present study used rubber tails to investigate body ownership in rodents. When the real tails and rubber tails were synchronously stroked, the mice responded as if their own tails were touched when the rubber tails were grasped. In contrast, when the stimuli were delivered asynchronously, there was a significantly lower mean response rate when the rubber tail was grasped. These findings suggest that mice may experience body ownership of their tails, suggestive of the rubber hand illusion in humans. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT: To explore the manner in which the ownership of body parts is experienced, this study specifically used the rubber hand illusion (RHI), in which self-consciousness can be extended out of one's own body. Accumulating empirical evidence supports the existence of this concept in humans and nonhuman primates, but it remains unclear whether nonprimate mammals experience similar feelings. This study demonstrated for the first time that mice may experience body ownership of their tails, which is suggestive of the RHI in humans and provides evidence that may highlight how humans experience the ownership of body parts.
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