Trial reportPloS one2019
Body ownership increases the interference between observed and executed movements.
Trial report in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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23 citing papers in PubMed.
- Cooperative learning in anatomy: Comparing virtual avatars and human specimens.Anatomical sciences education · 2026Trial
- Neuroendocrine Response and State Anxiety Due to Psychosocial Stress Decrease after a Training with Subject's Own (but Not Another) Virtual Body: An RCT Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Effect of unilaterally manipulating the step length of an embodied avatar on gait symmetry in healthy adults.Virtual reality · 2026Article
- Impact on Body Composition and Physical Fitness of an Exercise Program Based on Immersive Virtual Reality: A Case Report.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Intensity of a Physical Exercise Programme Executed through Immersive Virtual Reality.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Embodying the avatar of an omnipotent agent modulates the perception of one's own abilities and enhances feelings of invulnerability.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Active inference unifies intentional and conflict-resolution imperatives of motor control.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Multisensory Integration Dominates Hypnotisability and Expectations in the Rubber Hand Illusion.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Embodiment of a virtual prosthesis through training using an EMG-based human-machine interface: Case series.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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- Active strategies for multisensory conflict suppression in the virtual hand illusion.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Contribution of interaction force to the sense of hand ownership and the sense of hand agency.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Changing your body changes your eating attitudes: embodiment of a slim virtual avatar induces avoidance of high-calorie food.Heliyon · 2021Article
- Awareness of voluntary action, rather than body ownership, improves motor control.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Virtual Body Ownership Illusions for Mental Health: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Congruency of Information Rather Than Body Ownership Enhances Motor Performance in Highly Embodied Virtual Reality.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Enhanced Visual Feedback Using Immersive VR Affects Decision Making Regarding Hand Use With a Simulated Impaired Limb.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Repeated Exposure to Illusory Sense of Body Ownership and Agency Over a Moving Virtual Body Improves Executive Functioning and Increases Prefrontal Cortex Activity in the Elderly.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Impact of visuomotor feedback on the embodiment of virtual hands detached from the body.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Individuals Prioritize the Reach Straightness and Hand Jerk of a Shared Avatar over Their Own.iScience · 2020Article
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Abstract
When we successfully achieve willed actions, the feeling that our moving body parts belong to the self (i.e., body ownership) is barely required. However, how and to what extent the awareness of our own body contributes to the neurocognitive processes subserving actions is still debated. Here we capitalized on immersive virtual reality in order to examine whether and how body ownership influences motor performance (and, secondly, if it modulates the feeling of voluntariness). Healthy participants saw a virtual body either from a first or a third person perspective. In both conditions, they had to draw continuously straight vertical lines while seeing the virtual arm doing the same action (i.e., drawing lines) or deviating from them (i.e., drawing ellipses). Results showed that when there was a mismatch between the intended and the seen movements (i.e., participants had to draw lines but the avatar drew ellipses), motor performance was strongly "attracted" towards the seen (rather than the performed) movement when the avatar's body part was perceived as own (i.e., first person perspective). In support of previous studies, here we provide direct behavioral evidence that the feeling of body ownership modulates the interference of seen movements to the performed movements.
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