ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2018
Tool Embodiment: The Tool's Output Must Match the User's Input.
Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Prosthetic embodiment: systematic review on definitions, measures, and experimental paradigms.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Pooled it
- Embodied Learning Through Immersive Virtual Reality: Theoretical Perspectives for Art and Design Education.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Rewiring the evolution of the human hand: How the embodiment of a virtual bionic tool improves behavior.iScience · 2024Article
- Embodiment for Robotic Lower-Limb Exoskeletons: A Narrative Review.IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society · 2023Article
- A multi-dimensional framework for prosthetic embodiment: a perspective for translational research.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Review
- Embodiment of supernumerary robotic limbs in virtual reality.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Are tools truly incorporated as an extension of the body representation?: Assessing the evidence for tool embodiment.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Review
- Familiarity with a Tool Influences Peripersonal Space and Primary Motor Cortex Excitability of Muscles Involved in Haptic Contact.Cerebral cortex communications · 2020Article
- Embodying their own wheelchair modifies extrapersonal space perception in people with spinal cord injury.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
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Abstract
The embodiment of tools and rubber hands is believed to involve the modification of two separate body representations: the body schema and the body image, respectively. It is thought that tools extend the capabilities of the body's action schema, whereas prosthetics like rubber hands are incorporated into the body image itself. Contrary to this dichotomy, recent research demonstrated that chopsticks can be embodied perceptually during a modified version of the rubber hand illusion (RHI) in which tools are held by the rubber hand and by the participant. In the present research, two experiments examined tool morpho-functional (tool output affordance, e.g., precision grasping) and sensorimotor (tool input, e.g., precision grip) match as a mechanism for this tool-use dependent change to the body image. Proprioceptive drift in the RHI occurred when the tool's output and the user's input matched, but not when this match was absent. This suggests that this factor may be necessary for tools to interact with the body image in the RHI.
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