ArticleScientific reports2018
The rubber hand illusion induced by visual-thermal stimulation.
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- Thermal illusions for thermal displays: a review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Review
- The rubber hand illusion evaluated using different stimulation modalities.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Visuo-thermal congruency modulates the sense of body ownership.Communications biology · 2022Article
- Verbal Suggestion Modulates the Sense of Ownership and Heat Pain Threshold During the "Injured" Rubber Hand Illusion.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Sustained rubber hand illusion after the end of visuotactile stimulation with a similar time course for the reduction of subjective ownership and proprioceptive drift.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- The rubber hand illusion is a fallible method to study ownership of prosthetic limbs.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Heat pain modulation with virtual water during a virtual hand illusion.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Affective certainty and congruency of touch modulate the experience of the rubber hand illusion.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The Embodiment of Objects: Review, Analysis, and Future Directions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Review
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Abstract
In the rubber hand illusion (RHI), synchronous touch of a real hand and an artificial hand leads to the feeling of the artificial hand belonging to one's own body. This study examined whether the RHI can be induced using visual-thermal instead of visual-tactile stimulus patterns and to which extent the congruency between temperature and colour of the visual stimulus influences the RHI. In a within-subject design, we presented cold vs. warm thermal stimuli to the participants' hidden hand combined with red vs. blue visual stimuli presented synchronously vs. asynchronously at a fake hand. The RHI could be induced using visual-thermal stimuli, yielding RHI vividness ratings comparable to the visual-tactile variant. Congruent (warm-red, cold-blue) synchronous stimulus patterns led to higher RHI vividness than incongruent (warm-blue, cold-red) synchronous combinations; in the asynchronous conditions, an inverse effect was present. Temperature ratings mainly depended on the actual stimulus temperature and were higher with synchronous vs. asynchronous patterns; they were also slightly higher with red vs. blue light, but there were no interactions with temperature or synchrony. In conclusion, we demonstrated that the RHI can be induced via visual-thermal stimuli, opening new perspectives in research on multi-sensory integration and body representations.
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