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Experimentally induced limb-disownership in mixed reality

Kannape, Oliver A.  
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Smith, Ethan J. T.
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Moseley, Peter
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February 1, 2019
Neuropsychologia

The seemingly stable construct of our bodily self depends on the continued, successful integration of multi sensory feedback about our body, rather than its purely physical composition. Accordingly, pathological disruption of such neural processing is linked to striking alterations of the bodily self, ranging from limb mis-identification to disownership, and even the desire to amputate a healthy limb. While previous embodiment research has relied on experimental setups using supernumerary limbs in variants of the Rubber Hand Illusion, we here used Mixed Reality to directly manipulate the feeling of ownership for one's own, biological limb. Using a HeadMounted Display, participants received visual feedback about their own arm, from an embodied first person perspective. In a series of three studies, in independent cohorts, we altered embodiment by providing visuotactile feedback that could be synchronous (control condition) or asynchronous (400 ms delay, Real Hand Illusion). During the illusion, participants reported a significant decrease in ownership of their own limb, along with a lowered sense of agency. Supporting the rightparietal body network, we found an increased illusion strength for the left upper limb as well as a modulation of the feeling of ownership during anodal transcranial direct current stimulation. Extending previous research, these findings demonstrate that a controlled, visuotactile conflict about one's own limb can be used to directly and systematically modulate ownership without a proxy. This not only corroborates the malleability of body representation but questions its permanence. These findings warrant further exploration of combined VR and neuromodulation therapies for disorders of the bodily self.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.12.014
Web of Science ID

WOS:000461003000017

Author(s)
Kannape, Oliver A.  
Smith, Ethan J. T.
Moseley, Peter
Roy, Mark P.
Lenggenhager, Bigna
Date Issued

2019-02-01

Publisher

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

Published in
Neuropsychologia
Volume

124

Start page

161

End page

170

Subjects

Behavioral Sciences

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Neurosciences

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Psychology, Experimental

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Neurosciences & Neurology

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Psychology

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body ownership

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disownership

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virtual reality

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neuromodulation

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xenomelia

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mixed reality

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rubber hand illusion

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bodily self

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vestibular stimulation

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body

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ownership

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desire

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pain

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somatoparaphrenia

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embodiment

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mechanisms

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