ArticleeLife2017
Body ownership promotes visual awareness.
Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Interoception, alexithymia, and motor congruency: Psychological drivers of body ownership in virtual reality.Perception · 2026Article
- Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Body trust in Korean population: validation of the Korean version of the body trust scale.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Balancing the Senses: Electrophysiological Responses Reveal the Interplay between Somatosensory and Visual Processing During Body-Related Multisensory Conflict.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Spatial perspective and identity in visual awareness of the bodily self-other distinction.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Cortical signatures of visual body representation develop in human infancy.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Piton: Investigating the Controllability of a Wearable Telexistence Robot.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Embodiment modifies attention allotment for the benefit of dual task performance.Communications biology · 2022Article
- "Real-life" continuous flash suppression (CFS)-CFS with real-world objects using augmented reality goggles.Behavior research methods · 2019Article
- Body ownership shapes self-orientation perception.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Posterior parietal cortex evaluates visuoproprioceptive congruence based on brief visual information.Scientific reports · 2017Article
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Abstract
The sense of ownership of one's body is important for survival, e.g., in defending the body against a threat. However, in addition to affecting behavior, it also affects perception of the world. In the case of visuospatial perception, it has been shown that the sense of ownership causes external space to be perceptually scaled according to the size of the body. Here, we investigated the effect of ownership on another fundamental aspect of visual perception: visual awareness. In two binocular rivalry experiments, we manipulated the sense of ownership of a stranger's hand through visuotactile stimulation while that hand was one of the rival stimuli. The results show that ownership, but not mere visuotactile stimulation, increases the dominance of the hand percept. This effect is due to a combination of longer perceptual dominance durations and shorter suppression durations. Together, these results suggest that the sense of body ownership promotes visual awareness.
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