ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
The Relationship Between Referral of Touch and the Feeling of Ownership in the Rubber Hand Illusion.
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- The Somatic Rubber Hand Illusion does not modulate perceived hand position in children with severe visual impairments.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Disentangling visually driven tactile predictions from multisensory integration in body ownership.Royal Society open science · 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
- Novel method for rubber hand illusion strength measurement based on inverse multidimensional scaling.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- Distinct Roles of the Premotor and Occipitotemporal Cortices in the Full-Body Illusion.eNeuro · 2025Article
- Embodiment of an artificial limb in mice.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- The prediction-confirmation account of the sense of body ownership: Evidence from a rubber hand illusion paradigm.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- The rubber hand illusion questionnaire: An exploratory graph analysis of ownership, referral of touch, and control statements.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 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
- The network of the subjective experience in embodiment phenomena.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Temporal dynamics of the Rubber Hand Illusion.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The ambiguous feeling between "mine" and "not-mine" measured by integrated information theory during rubber hand illusion.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Reply to: No specific relationship between hypnotic suggestibility and the rubber hand illusion.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Multisensory Integration Dominates Hypnotisability and Expectations in the Rubber Hand Illusion.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Intrinsic neural activity predisposes susceptibility to a body illusion.Cerebral cortex communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
The rubber hand illusion (RHI) is one of the most commonly used paradigms to examine the sense of body ownership. Touches are synchronously applied to the real hand, hidden from view, and a false hand in an anatomically congruent position. During the illusion one may perceive that the feeling of touch arises from the false hand (referral of touch), and that the false hand is one's own. The relationship between referral of touch and body ownership in the illusion is unclear, and some articles average responses to statements addressing these experiences, which may be inappropriate depending on the research question of interest. To address these concerns, we re-analyzed three freely available datasets to better understand the relationship between referral of touch and feeling of ownership in the RHI. We found that most participants who report a feeling of ownership also report referral of touch, and that referral of touch and ownership show a moderately strong positive relationship that was highly replicable. In addition, referral of touch tends to be reported more strongly and more frequently than the feeling of ownership over the hand. The former observations confirm that referral of touch and ownership are related experiences in the RHI. The latter, however, indicate that when pooling the statements one may obtain a higher number of illusion 'responders' compared to considering the ownership statements in isolation. These results have implications for the RHI as an experimental paradigm.
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