Visual Capture of Action, Experience of Ownership, and the Illusion of Self-Touch: A New Rubber Hand Paradigm
Anne M. Aimola Davies, Rebekah C. White, Graham R. Thew, Natalie M V Aimola, Martin Davies · Perception · 2010
A new rubber hand paradigm evokes an illusion with three conceptually distinct components: (i) the participant experiences her/his hidden right hand as administering touch at the location of the examiner's viewed administering hand (visual capture of action); (ii) the participant experiences the examiner's administering hand as being the participant's own hand (experience of ownership); and (iii) the participant experiences her/his two hands as being in contact, as if she/he were touching her/his own hand (illusion of self-touch). The presence of these illusory experiences was confirmed by questionnaire responses and proprioceptive drift data.