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ArticleiScience2020

Psychometrics of Disembodiment and Its Differential Modulation by Visuomotor and Visuotactile Mismatches.

Marte Roel Lesur, Marieke Lieve Weijs, Colin Simon, Oliver Alan Kannape, Bigna Lenggenhager

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Article in iScience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Marte Roel LesurDepartment of Psychology, Cognitive Neuropsychology with Focus on Body, Self, and Plasticity, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address: marteroel@gmail.com.
Marieke Lieve WeijsDepartment of Psychology, Cognitive Neuropsychology with Focus on Body, Self, and Plasticity, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Colin SimonDepartment of Psychology, Cognitive Neuropsychology with Focus on Body, Self, and Plasticity, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Oliver Alan KannapeSchool of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK; Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Center for Neuroprosthetics and Brain Mind Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Geneva, Switzerland.
Bigna LenggenhagerDepartment of Psychology, Cognitive Neuropsychology with Focus on Body, Self, and Plasticity, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address: bigna.lenggenhager@gmail.com.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Altered states of embodiment are fundamental to the scientific understanding of bodily self consciousness. The feeling of disembodiment during everyday activities is common to clinical conditions; however, the direct study of disembodiment in experimental setups is rare compared to the extensive investigation of illusory embodiment of an external object. Using mixed reality to modulate embodiment through temporally mismatching sensory signals from the own body, we assessed how such mismatches affect phenomenal and physiological aspects of embodiment and measured perceptual thresholds for these across multimodal signals. The results of a principal component analysis suggest that multimodal mismatches generally induce disembodiment by increasing the sense of disownership and deafference and decreasing embodiment; however, this was not generally reflected in physiological changes. Although visual delay decreased embodiment both during active movement and passive touch, the effect was stronger for the former. We discuss the relevance of these findings for understanding bodily self plasticity.

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Applied Sensory PsychophysicsCognitive NeuroscienceSensory Neuroscience

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PMID32109678
PMCPMC7044746

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