2. RUBBER HAND ILLUSION
The feeling that an extraneous object, in this case a rubber hand, is actually part of one’s own
body.
3. EXPERIMENT:
A healthy volunteer’s hand is hidden from view by a screen, and a rubber hand is placed next to
the hidden hand but in clear sight.
Then the experimenter repeatedly strokes the hidden hand and the rubber hand synchronously.
4. In less than a minute, many volunteers begin to feel that the rubber hand is part of their own
body.
Interestingly, when this happens, the temperature in the hidden hand drop.
When people experiences the rubber hand illusion, the strength of electrical pulses that got
through to their real hand drops dramatically.
The brain effectively wounds down its readiness to use the hans.
5. APPLICATIONS OF RUBBER HAND
ILLUSION:
• The rubber hand illusion can also help to treat disorders where body ownership is distorted.
• The illusion could also be used for exploring the sense of limb and prosthetic ownership for
people after amputation.
6. • upper limb amputees can be made to experience a rubber hand as part of their own body.
• This is accomplished by applying synchronous touches to the stump, which was out of view,
and to the index finger of a rubber hand, placed in full view.
• This evoked an illusion of sensing touch on the artificial hand, rather than on the stump and a
feeling of ownership of the rubber hand developed.
