Which is my body and how do I distinguish it from the bodies of others, or from objects in the
surrounding environment? The perception of our own body and more particularly our sense …

The rubber hand illusion (RHI) is a widely applied paradigm to investigate changes in body
representations. Extensive scientific interest has produced a great variability in the observed …

Various “embodied perception” phenomena suggest that what people sense of their body
shapes what they perceive of the environment and that what they perceive of the …

The experience of one's body as one's own is referred to as the sense of body ownership.
This central part of human conscious experience determines the boundary between the self …

In this paper, we explore how users can control remote devices with a virtual long arm, while
preserving the perception that the artificial arm is actually part of their own body. Instead of …

We present Ownershift, an interaction technique for easing overhead manipulation in virtual
reality, while preserving the illusion that the virtual hand is the user's own hand. In contrast to …

Recent studies have shown how embodiment induced by multisensory bodily interactions
between individuals can positively change social attitudes (closeness, empathy, racial …

Equipped with a third hand under their direct control, surgeons may be able to perform
certain surgical interventions alone; this would reduce the need for a human assistant and …

Previous evidence highlighted the multisensory‐motor origin of embodiment–that is, the
experience of having a body and of being in control of it–and the possibility of …

A strong link between body perception and emotional experience has been proposed. To
examine the interaction between body perception and anticipatory anxiety, two well …