Body transfer illusion is the illusion of owning either a part of a body or an entire body other than one's own, and is sometimes referred to in the research literature as body ownership. It can be induced experimentally, typically using virtual reality, by manipulating a subject's visual perspective and supplying visual and sensory signals that correlate with the subject's own body. For the illusion to occur, bottom-up perceptual mechanisms, such as the input of visual information, must override the subject's top-down knowledge that the body or body part in question does not actually belong to them.
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First Described YearYear the rubber hand illusion, the original form of the illusion, was reported; the source gives no year for the full-body form. Core ClaimBody transfer illusion is the illusion of owning either a part of a body or an entire body other than one's own. 1 Classification
Type of Phenomenon Sources
1. Wikipedia: Body transfer illusion
Introduction
the illusion of owning either a part of a body or an entire body other than one's own
Rubber Hand Illusion
The rubber hand illusion was originally reported by Botvinick and Cohen in 1998.
lead section, phenomenon-kind classification
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.
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