Body transfer illusion

Body transfer illusion is the illusion of owning either a part of a body or an entire body other than one's own, thus it is sometimes referred to as "body ownership" in the research literature. It can be induced experimentally by manipulating the visual perspective of the subject and also supplying visual and sensory signals which correlate to the subject's body.[1][2] For it to occur, bottom-up perceptual mechanisms, such as the input of visual information, must override top-down knowledge that the certain body (or part) does not belong. This is what results in an illusion of transfer of body ownership.[3] It is typically induced using virtual reality.[3]

  1. ^ Petkova VI, Ehrsson HH, 2008 "If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping". PLoS ONE 3(12): e3832. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003832
  2. ^ M.P.M. Kammers, I.J.M. van der Ham, H.C. Dijkerman, "Dissociating body representations in healthy individuals: Differential effects of a kinaesthetic illusion on perception and action", Neuropsychologia, Volume 44, Issue 12, 2006, pp. 2430–2436, ISSN 0028-3932, doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.04.009.
  3. ^ a b Slater M, Spanlang B, Sanchez-Vives MV, Blanke O, 2010 "First Person Experience of Body Transfer in Virtual Reality". PLoS ONE 5(5): e10564. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010564