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SUBMITTER: Cardinali L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7820319 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cardinali Lucilla L Zanini Alessandro A Yanofsky Russell R Roy Alice C AC de Vignemont Frédérique F Culham Jody C JC Farnè Alessandro A
Scientific reports 20210121 1
A tool can function as a body part yet not feel like one: Putting down a fork after dinner does not feel like losing a hand. However, studies show fake body-parts are embodied and experienced as parts of oneself. Typically, embodiment illusions have only been reported when the fake body-part visually resembles the real one. Here we reveal that participants can experience an illusion that a mechanical grabber, which looks scarcely like a hand, is part of their body. We found changes in three sign ...[more]