Explaining how the rubber hand illusion makes your real hand go cold.

1. Lorimer Moseley
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
Senior Fellow
The GAMFI project
University of Oxford, UK

2. Inducing changes in body
ownership - incorporating a rubber
hand

3. Ehrsson et al: j NEUROSCi 25,4510564-10573 2005
This shows brain
areas associated
with the illusion that
the rubber hand
belongs to you
Blobs demonstrating plasticity in sense
of physical self

4. The rubber hand illusion
To see how to do
the rubber hand
illusion, go to The
rubber hand illusion
movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=TCQbygjG0RU
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5. The rubber hand
illusion 0º
Skin
temperature
-1º
R =0.50*
0
5
10
Vividness of the illusion
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6. The rubber hand Ctl RHI Ctl
illusion 10
Vividness
of RHI
0
0º
Foot
temperature
-1º
60 s
0º
Hand
temperature
-1º
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7. The rubber hand
illusion 0º
Skin
temperature
-1º
R =0.50*
These things mean that by
experimentally manipulating
0
5
10
ownership, we: Vividness of the illusion
(i) Reduce blood flow control
10
R=0.64*
and
Vividness
of RHI
(i) Reduce tactile processing
0
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Bias in information processing