Representing one's own body is of fundamental importance to interact with our environment,
yet little is known about how body representations develop. One account suggests that the …

Developmental science is increasingly interested in investigating the early ontogeny of the
so-called implicit self. It is supposed to be a non-conceptual form of self including the …

The sense of a bodily self is thought to depend on adaptive weighting and integration of
bodily afferents and prior beliefs. Evidence from studies using paradigms such as the rubber …

The human brain recruits similar brain regions when a state is experienced (eg, touch, pain,
actions) and when that state is passively observed in other individuals. In adults, seeing …

There are vast potential applications for children's entertainment and education with modern
virtual reality (VR) experiences, yet we know very little about how the movement or form of …

The mechanisms underlying the developing sense of bodily self are debated. Whereas
some scholars stress the role of sensory factors, others propose the importance of contextual …

In the rubber hand illusion (RHI), the feeling that a fake hand belongs to oneself can be
induced by the simultaneous, congruent touch of the fake visible hand and one's own …

In this study we investigated, both in childhood and adulthood, the role of action in
promoting and shaping the sense of body ownership, which is traditionally viewed as …

Recent studies have shown that body-representations can be altered by dynamic changes
in sound. In the so-called “auditory Pinocchio illusion” participants feel their finger to be …

Body ownership (the feeling that my body belongs to me) can be easily perturbed in healthy
individuals by inducing bodily illusions. For example, dis-integrating vision, touch, and …