ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2021
How to lose a hand: Sensory updating drives disembodiment.
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- Sensing vs. seeing: body experience rather than mere body observation is linked to efficiency of descending pain modulation.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Both first-hand and vicarious social ostracism reduces sense of agency and body ownership: evidence from explicit and implicit measures.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Bound by Experience: Updating the Body Representation When Using Virtual Objects.Human factors · 2025Article
- After a Hand Was Lent: Sporadically Experiencing Multisensory Interference During the Rubber Hand Illusion Does Not Shield Against Disembodiment.Journal of cognition · 2025Article
- Instant disembodiment of virtual body parts.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Article
- Verbal Suggestion Modulates the Sense of Ownership and Heat Pain Threshold During the "Injured" Rubber Hand Illusion.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Cognitive load dissociates explicit and implicit measures of body ownership and agency.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Article
- How Action Shapes Body Ownership Momentarily and Throughout the Lifespan.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
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Abstract
Body representations are readily expanded based on sensorimotor experience. A dynamic view of body representations, however, holds that these representations cannot only be expanded but that they can also be narrowed down by disembodying elements of the body representation that are no longer warranted. Here we induced illusory ownership in terms of a moving rubber hand illusion and studied the maintenance of this illusion across different conditions. We observed ownership experience to decrease gradually unless participants continued to receive confirmatory multisensory input. Moreover, a single instance of multisensory mismatch - a hammer striking the rubber hand but not the real hand - triggered substantial and immediate disembodiment. Together, these findings support and extend previous theoretical efforts to model body representations through basic mechanisms of multisensory integration. They further support an updating model suggesting that embodied entities fade from the body representation if they are not refreshed continuously.
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