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SUBMITTER: van der Veer AH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6179224 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van der Veer Albert H AH Alsmith Adrian J T AJT Longo Matthew R MR Wong Hong Yu HY Mohler Betty J BJ
PloS one 20181010 10
It is currently not well understood whether people experience themselves to be located in one or more specific part(s) of their body. Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used as a tool to study aspects of bodily perception and self-consciousness, due to its strong experimental control and ease in manipulating multi-sensory aspects of bodily experience. To investigate where people self-locate in their body within virtual reality, we asked participants to point directly at themselves with a virtu ...[more]