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ArticleiScience2025

Feeling pain from a rubber hand: Nociceptive drift in the rubber hand illusion.

Sara Coppi, Karin B Jensen, H Henrik Ehrsson

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Article in iScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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3 authors.

Sara CoppiDepartment of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Karin B JensenDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
H Henrik EhrssonDepartment of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The sense of body ownership refers to the perceptual experience of one's body as one's own and can be studied using the rubber hand illusion (RHI). Body ownership relies on multisensory integration, although the relative contributions of different sensory modalities remain unclear. We investigated the role of nociception in body ownership using the nociceptive RHI (N-RHI), a version of the RHI triggered by noxious laser stimulation. Specifically, we assessed whether the N-RHI is as strong as the classic tactile RHI and whether both illusions induce a shift in perceived pain location toward the rubber hand ("nociceptive drift"). Our results reveal similarly strong questionnaire responses and proprioceptive drift in both illusions compared with the control conditions and show that both the tactile RHI and the N-RHI result in a significant nociceptive drift. These findings underscore the role of nociception in body ownership and highlight the multisensory nature of pain localization.

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Behavioral neuroscienceCognitive neuroscience

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PMID40546968
PMCPMC12178805

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