Atypical susceptibility to the rubber hand illusion linked to sensory-localised vicarious pain perception

Botan, V.; Fan, S.; Critchley, H.; Ward, J.

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2018.02.010

Atypical susceptibility to the rubber hand illusion linked to sensory-localised vicarious pain perception

The Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) paradigm has been widely used to investigate the sense of body ownership. People who report experiencing the pain of others are hypothesised to have differences in computing body ownership and, hence, we predicted that they would perform atypically on the RHI. The V…