Original Rubber Hand Experiment

A cloth covered the stump of the hand but the fingers remained visible.

Original rubber hand experiment.

Since earlier work suggests a right hemispheric dominance for body ownership experience ocklenburg et al 2011 our current experiment was administered only to each participant s left hand and a corresponding rubber hand was employed. 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. Watch how you can trick your brain by stroking a fake rubber hand and your real hand at. In 1998 researchers matthew botvinick and jonathan cohen of the university of pittsburgh pa detailed an experiment that people would later refer to as the rubber hand illusion rhi.

Watch how you can trick your brain by stroking a fake rubber hand and your real hand at the same time. It can be induced experimentally by manipulating the visual perspective of the subject and also supplying visual and sensory signals which correlate to the subject s body.