ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2022
Illusory Body Ownership Affects the Cortical Response to Vicarious Somatosensation.
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- Taking an embodied avatar's perspective modulates the temporal dynamics of vicarious pain and pleasure: a virtual reality and EEG study.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- How pain and body representations transform each other: A narrative review.Journal of neuropsychology · 2025Review
- Evidence of a hierarchical representation in bodily self-consciousness: the neural correlates of embodiment and presence in virtual worlds.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Artificial embodiment displaces cortical neuromagnetic somatosensory responses.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Neuroanatomical correlates of peripersonal space: bridging the gap between perception, action, emotion and social cognition.Brain structure & function · 2024Review
- Social Touch: Its Mirror-like Responses and Implications in Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases.NeuroSci · 2023Review
- Implicit IAT Measures and Neurophysiological fNIRS Markers in Response to High-Engagement Advertising.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Visual Affective Stimulus Database: A Validated Set of Short Videos.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Fundamental human feelings such as body ownership ("this" body is "my" body) and vicariousness (first-person-like experience of events occurring to others) are based on multisensory integration. Behavioral links between body ownership and vicariousness have been shown, but the neural underpinnings remain largely unexplored. To fill this gap, we investigated the neural effects of altered body ownership on vicarious somatosensation. While recording functional brain imaging data, first, we altered participants' body ownership by robotically delivering tactile stimulations ("tactile" stroking) in synchrony or not with videos of a virtual hand being brushed ("visual" stroking). Then, we manipulated vicarious somatosensation by showing videos of the virtual hand being touched by a syringe's plunger (touch) or needle (pain). Only after the alteration of body ownership (synchronous visuo-tactile stroking) and specifically during late epochs of vicarious somatosensation, vicarious pain was associated with lower activation in premotor and anterior cingulate cortices with respect to vicarious touch. At the methodological level, the present study highlights the importance of the neural response's temporal evolution. At the theoretical level, it shows that the higher-level (cognitive) impact of a lower-level (sensory) body-related processing (visuo-tactile) is not limited to body ownership but also extends to other psychological body-related domains, such as vicarious somatosensation.
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