Why we should rethink our approach to embodiment and presence

PP Forster, H Karimpur, K Fiehler - Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022 - frontiersin.org
When interacting with objects in the environment, it feels natural to have a body which
moves in accordance to our intentions. Virtual reality (VR) provides a tool to present users …

Uncertainty-based inference of a common cause for body ownership

M Chancel, HH Ehrsson, WJ Ma - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Many studies have investigated the contributions of vision, touch, and proprioception to body
ownership, ie, the multisensory perception of limbs and body parts as our own. However, the …

Causal inference of body ownership in the posterior parietal cortex

M Chancel, H Iriye, HH Ehrsson - Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
How do we come to sense that a hand in view belongs to our own body or not? Previous
studies have suggested that the integration of vision and somatosensation in the …

Multisensory integration dominates hypnotisability and expectations in the rubber hand illusion

M Slater, HH Ehrsson - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Some recent papers by P. Lush and colleagues have argued that the rubber hand illusion
(RHI), where participants can feel a rubber hand as their own under appropriate …

Combination of visuo-tactile and visuo-vestibular correlations in illusory body ownership and self-motion sensations

N Preuss Mattsson, S Coppi, M Chancel, HH Ehrsson - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Previous studies have shown that illusory ownership over a mannequin's body can be
induced through synchronous visuo-tactile stimulation as well as through synchronous visuo …

[HTML][HTML] Individual Differences in Bodily Self-Consciousness and Its Neural Basis

H Wu, Y Huang, P Qin, H Wu - Brain Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Bodily self-consciousness (BSC), a subject of interdisciplinary interest, refers to the
awareness of one's bodily states. Previous studies have noted the existence of individual …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying body ownership information processing and perceptual bias in the rubber hand illusion

RC Lanfranco, M Chancel, HH Ehrsson - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Bodily illusions have fascinated humankind for centuries, and researchers have studied
them to learn about the perceptual and neural processes that underpin multisensory …

What do participants expect to experience in the rubber hand illusion? A conceptual replication of Lush (2020)

AT Reader - Collabra: Psychology, 2022 - online.ucpress.edu
The sense of body ownership (the feeling that the body belongs to the self) is commonly
believed to arise through multisensory integration. This is famously shown in the rubber …

Bodily illusions

HH Ehrsson - The Routledge handbook of bodily awareness, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Bodily illusions are changes in immediate awareness of one's body that do not correspond
to the body's veridical state. They offer a unique tool for investigating the perceptual …

The rubber hand illusion: Top-down attention modulates embodiment

R Thériault, M Landry, A Raz - Quarterly Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) creates distortions of body ownership through multimodal
integration of somatosensory and visual inputs. This illusion largely rests on bottom-up …