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Visual Capture of Touch: Out-of-the-Body Experiences With Rubber Gloves.

Pavani, Francesco, Spence, Charles, Driver, Jon·2000·Psychological Science
DOI 10.1111/1467-9280.00270
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When the apparent visual location of a body part conflicts with its veridical location, vision can dominate proprioception and kinesthesia. In this article, we show that vision can capture tactile localization. Participants discriminated the location of vibrotactile stimuli (upper, at the index finger, vs. lower, at the thumb), while ignoring distractor lights that could independently be upper or lower. Such tactile discriminations were slowed when the distractor light was incongruent with the tactile target (e.g., an upper light during lower touch) rather than congruent, especially when the lights appeared near the stimulated hand. The hands were occluded under a table, with all distractor lights above the table. The effect of the distractor lights increased when rubber hands were placed on the table, "holding" the distractor lights, but only when the rubber hands were spatially aligned with the participant's own hands. In this aligned situation, participants were more likely to report the illusion of feeling touch at the rubber hands. Such visual capture of touch appears cognitively impenetrable.

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  • The crossmodal congruency effect has previously been used as a measure of the tactile mislocalisation of touch towards a rubber hand when a fake hand was either aligned or misaligned with subjects' own hands.

    “The CCE has previously been used as a measure of the tactile mislocalisation of touch towards a rubber hand when a fake hand was either aligned or misaligned with subjects' own hands ([12], see also [15]).”

    From Keeping in touch with one’s self: multisensory mechanisms of self-consciousness (2009) · cites this paper as [12]

  • The present data extend previous findings that used the CCE paradigm for body parts, usually hands.

    “By demonstrating CCEs for the full body our data extend the findings of previous studies that have used this paradigm for body parts, usually hands [12], [15], [30]–[32].”

    From Keeping in touch with one’s self: multisensory mechanisms of self-consciousness (2009) · cites this paper as [12]

  • Even for the full body, the magnitude of the CCE is modulated by the perceived spatial distance between the tactile target and the visual distractor.

    “This demonstrates that even for the full body, the magnitude of the CCE is modulated by the perceived spatial distance between the tactile target and the visual distractor (as previously observed for hand CCEs [12], [15], [30], [32]).”

    From Keeping in touch with one’s self: multisensory mechanisms of self-consciousness (2009) · cites this paper as [12]

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Authors
Pavani, F., Spence, C., & Driver, J.
Affiliations
  • University College London (GB)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author
Pavani, Francesco
ORCID
Venue
Psychological Science
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2000-09
Volume
11
Issue
5
Pages
353-359
ISSN
  • 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-9280
DOI
10.1111/1467-9280.00270
OpenAlex
W2169084829
Cited by
608
References
19
Citations by year
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FWCI
16.17
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Iris (University of Trento) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
Keywords
rubber hand illusion, tactile localization, vibrotactile discrimination, multisensory integration, cognitive penetrability
MeSH terms
Adult, Female, Hand, Humans, Illusions, Light, Male, Proprioception, Touch, Vibration, Visual Perception, Gloves, Protective

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