Illusory ownership of a virtual child body causes overestimation of object sizes and implicit attitude changes

Banakou, Domna, Groten, Raphaela, Slater, Mel·2013·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI 10.1073/pnas.1306779110

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