VR and Body Ownership - How your brain figures out where and what your body is! | Game & Science
75How do you know that your hand is your hand? How can we become fully immersed in virtual reality or with prosthetic limbs? What processes are involved in our brain? Let's discuss your sense of agency, body ownership, and the Rubber Hand Illusion!
Most of the information discussed here come directly from academic journal articles. If anything said in the video is incorrect or debatable, please comment below!!!
All clips used for educational and illustrative purposes.
#Neuroscience #Illusion #VR
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- Vanishing Point from Transistor OST
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References:
- Kalckert, A., & Ehrsson, H. H. (2012). Moving a Rubber Hand that Feels Like Your Own: A Dissociation of Ownership and Agency. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6(March), 40. http://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00040
- Kilteni, K., Normand, J. M., Sanchez-Vives, M. V., & Slater, M. (2012). Extending body space in immersive virtual reality: a very long arm illusion. PloS one, 7(7), e40867.
- Maravita, A., & Iriki, A. (2004). Tools for the body (schema). Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(2), 79–86. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2003.12.008
- Marasco, P. D., Kim, K., Colgate, J. E., Peshkin, M. A., & Kuiken, T. A. (2011). Robotic touch shifts perception of embodiment to a prosthesis in targeted reinnervation amputees. Brain, 134(3), 747–758. http://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awq361
- Newport, R., & Preston, C. (2010). Pulling the finger off disrupts agency, embodiment and peripersonal space. Perception, 39(9), 1296–1298. http://doi.org/10.1068/p6742
- Petkova, V. I., & Ehrsson, H. H. (2008). If I were you: Perceptual illusion of body swapping. PLoS ONE, 3(12). http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003832
- Salomon, R., Fernandez, N. B., van Elk, M., Vachicouras, N., Sabatier, F., Tychinskaya, A., … Blanke, O. (2016). Changing motor perception by sensorimotor conflicts and body ownership. Scientific Reports, 6(April), 25847. http://doi.org/10.1038/srep25847
- Samad, M., Chung, A. J., & Shams, L. (2015). Perception of body ownership is driven by Bayesian sensory inference. PLoS ONE, 10(2), 1–23. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117178
- Tsakiris, M., Carpenter, L., James, D., & Fotopoulou, A. (2010). Hands only illusion: Multisensory integration elicits sense of ownership for body parts but not for non-corporeal objects. Experimental Brain Research, 204(3), 343–352. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-009-2039-3
- Witt, J. K., Proffitt, D. R., & Epstein, W. (2005). Tool use affects perceived distance, but only when you intend to use it. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 31(5), 880–888. http://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.31.5.880
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