Referral of touch and ownership between the hands and the role of the somatosensory cortices.

Recent studies have shown that the feeling of body ownership can be fooled by simple visuo-tactile manipulations. Perceptual illusions have been reported in which participants sense phantom touch seen on a rubber hand (rubber hand illusion). While previous studies used homologous limbs for those exp...

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Main Authors: Michael Schaefer, Franziska Konczak, Hans-Jochen Heinze, Michael Rotte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23300992/?tool=EBI