ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2020
Which hand is mine? Discriminating body ownership perception in a two-alternative forced-choice task.
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- Disentangling visually driven tactile predictions from multisensory integration in body ownership.Royal Society open science · 2026Article
- Behavioral and psychophysical characterization of proprioceptive impairment in healthy aging: a hyper-illusory experience of movement.npj aging · 2026Article
- Parietal alpha frequency shapes own-body perception by modulating the temporal integration of bodily signals.Nature communications · 2026Article
- The illusion of a "sense of body lightness" while walking: a preliminary exploratory study.Frontiers in psychology · 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
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- Amputees but not healthy subjects optimally integrate non-spatially matched visuo-tactile stimuli.iScience · 2025Article
- Enhancing Agency in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Therapies Through Sensorimotor Technologies.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Texture congruence modulates perceptual bias but not sensitivity to visuotactile stimulation during the rubber hand illusion.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Revisiting the relationship between illusory hand ownership induced by visuotactile synchrony and cardiac interoceptive accuracy.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- No reduction in motor-evoked potential amplitude during the rubber hand illusion.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- Proprioceptive uncertainty promotes the rubber hand illusion.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2023Article
- Synchronous motor imagery and visual feedback of finger movement elicit the moving rubber hand illusion, at least in illusion-susceptible individuals.Experimental brain research · 2023Article
- An illusion of disownership over one's own limb is associated with pain perception.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A multi-dimensional framework for prosthetic embodiment: a perspective for translational research.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2022Review
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Abstract
The experience of one's body as one's own is referred to as the sense of body ownership. This central part of human conscious experience determines the boundary between the self and the external environment, a crucial distinction in perception, action, and cognition. Although body ownership is known to involve the integration of signals from multiple sensory modalities, including vision, touch, and proprioception, little is known about the principles that determine this integration process, and the relationship between body ownership and perception is unclear. These uncertainties stem from the lack of a sensitive and rigorous method to quantify body ownership. Here, we describe a two-alternative forced-choice discrimination task that allows precise and direct measurement of body ownership as participants decide which of two rubber hands feels more like their own in a version of the rubber hand illusion. In two experiments, we show that the temporal and spatial congruence principles of multisensory stimulation, which determine ownership discrimination, impose tighter constraints than previously thought and that texture congruence constitutes an additional principle; these findings are compatible with theoretical models of multisensory integration. Taken together, our results suggest that body ownership constitutes a genuine perceptual multisensory phenomenon that can be quantified with psychophysics in discrimination experiments.
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