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If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping
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The concept of an individual swapping his or her body with that of another person has captured the imagination of writers and artists for decades. Although this topic has not been the subject of investigation in science, it exemplifies the fundamental question of why we have an ongoing experience of being located inside our bodies. Here we report a perceptual illusion of body-swapping that addresses directly this issue. Manipulation of the visual perspective, in combination with the receipt of correlated multisensory information from the body was sufficient to trigger the illusion that another person's body or an artificial body was one's own. This effect was so strong that people could experience being in another person's body when facing their own body and shaking hands with it. Our results are of fundamental importance because they identify the perceptual processes that produce the feeling of ownership of one's body.
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Synchronous visuo-tactile stimulation from a first-person perspective can make healthy volunteers experience a mannequin’s body, or another person’s body, as their own. The illusion is strong enough that participants can face their own body and shake hands with it while feeling located in the other body.
Key findings
- In Experiment 1, synchronous stroking of a mannequin’s abdomen produced questionnaire evidence of whole-body ownership; illusion statements differed significantly between synchronous and asynchronous conditions (p = .000, F(1, 95) = 107.508), while asynchronous controls showed no such illusory perceptions (p = .703, F(1, 223) = 1.513).
- Threat-evoked skin conductance responses (SCRs) provided physiological evidence: threatening the mannequin with a knife in the synchronous condition elicited greater SCR than control conditions (N = 10, p = .009, Z = −2.599; p = .028, Z = −2.191), and ownership generalised from stimulated hands or abdomen to the whole body (N = 13, p = .011, Z = −2.511 and p = .033, Z = −2.132).
- Only human-like bodies were owned: SCR was stronger when the mannequin was threatened in the synchronous condition than when a same-sized rectangular object was threatened after synchronous stimulation (N = 12, p = .008); synchronous vs asynchronous stimulation mattered for the mannequin (p = .04) but not for the rectangular object (p = .819).
- In Experiment 5, participants facing their own body while shaking hands with the experimenter experienced the experimenter’s body as their own; SCR was greater when the experimenter’s wrist was threatened than when the participant’s own hand was threatened in the synchronous condition (N = 20, p = .0002, Z = −3.099), with no such difference in the asynchronous condition (p = .737) and a significant Hand × Condition interaction (p = .001, F(1, 19) = 17.083). Gender and body-shape differences were not significant (Experiment 1: N = 32, p = .613, F(1, 223) = .257; pooled SCR: p = .952, F = .004).
Methods
- Five experiments used separate groups of naïve healthy volunteers: Experiment 1, N = 32 (16 females, mean age 25 ± 6 years); Experiment 2, N = 10 (2 females, 25 ± 4); Experiment 3, N = 13 (8 females, 27 ± 6.5); Experiment 4, N = 12 (4 females, 29 ± 6); Experiment 5, N = 20 (13 females, 27 ± 6.5). The studies were approved by the local Ethical Committee of Karolinska Institute.
- Participants wore head-mounted displays connected to CCTV cameras mounted on a mannequin or the experimenter’s head to provide a first-person visual perspective. Experiments compared synchronous versus asynchronous visuo-tactile stimulation (stroking the abdomen or hands, or hand squeezing) and measured threat-evoked SCRs using a Biopac MP150 system with electrodes on the left index and middle fingers.
- Questionnaire ratings used a seven-point Likert scale. SCR was analysed as the peak conductance change up to 5 seconds after threat onset. Parametric tests were used for Experiments 1 and 4 (which passed normality testing), and non-parametric tests for the other experiments; alpha was set at 5%.
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- Stated limitations: Not stated in the paper.
- Evident from the text: sample sizes were small and each experiment used a separate group of healthy young adults (N = 10–32), so generalisability to clinical, older, or other populations is untested; the gender comparison pooled data from Experiments 3 and 4 to obtain sufficient males and females.
- Evident from the text: in Experiment 5, the asynchronous control did not fully abolish the illusion—several participants reported a weaker illusion, and the first-person perspective still influenced them—which the authors note likely explains the lack of SCR difference between hands in the asynchronous condition.
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“Manipulation of the visual perspective, in combination with the receipt of correlated multisensory information from the body was sufficient to trigger the illusion that another person's body or an artificial body was one's own.”
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“This effect was so strong that people could experience being in another person's body when facing their own body and shaking hands with it.”
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“Particularly strong evidence for this was the counter-intuitive demonstration that one can face one's physical body and shake hands with it whilst experiencing the illusion of being within another person's body.”
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“The results of the data analysis revealed that the threat-evoked SCRs were significantly stronger in the synchronous condition with the mannequin than in the synchronous one with the rectangular object. (N = 12, p = .008, two-tailed t-test) (Figure 5).”
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“Pilot experiments suggested that the illusion did not work with objects that do not resemble a human body, such as boxes, chairs and tables.”
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“We observed significantly stronger skin conductance responses when the knife was moved near the experimenter's wrist than when it was moved towards the participant's own hand in the synchronous condition (N = 20, p = .0002, Z = −3.099, two-tailed Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test) (Figure 7).”
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“Most remarkably, the participants' sensations of the tactile and muscular stimulation elicited by the squeezing of the hands seemed to originate from the experimenter's hand, and not from their own clearly visible hand.”
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“This effect is so robust that, while experiencing being in another person's body, a participant can face his or her biological body and shake hands with it without breaking the illusion.”
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“Finally, we registered a greater SCR when the experimenter's hand was threatened in the synchronous condition than in the asynchronous one (N = 20, p = 0.037, Z = −2.091, two-tailed Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test).”
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“No such illusory perceptions were reported in the asynchronous control condition (p = .703, F(1, 223) = 1.513, ANOVA).”
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- Rests on an assumption: The questionnaire statements S1–S3 validly capture the illusory experience of being the artificial body, and S4–S7 validly control for suggestibility and task-compliance.
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“(This response was also significantly stronger than the low level control condition with the spoon threat after asynchronous stimulation; p = .017, Z = −2.395; not shown in Figure 3).”
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“From the completed questionnaires it was evident that the participants had felt the mannequin's body to be their own body, and that they sensed the touch of the rod directly on the mannequin's abdomen in the synchronous condition (p = .000, F(1, 223) = 125.434, ANOVA).”
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“Our experiments reveal that healthy volunteers can indeed experience other people's bodies, as well as artificial bodies, as being their own.”
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“The results of our experiments demonstrate that healthy volunteers can perceive another person's body, or an artificial humanoid body, to be their own.”
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“For a third time we reproduced a difference in the SCRs between synchronous and asynchronous stimulation of the humanoid body (N = 12, p = .04, two-tailed t-test), without any such difference being observed in the conditions with the rectangular object (p = .819, two-tailed t-test).”
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“Even though the mean rank of the observed SCR after threatening the participants' own hand was higher than that obtained by threat to the experimenter's hand in that condition (13.71 vs. 8.77), the effect was not statistically significant (N = 20, = .737, Z = −.336, two-tailed Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test).”
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“The difference in SCR observed when threatening the experimenter's and participant's wrists in the two conditions was significant [interaction between the main factors Hands (Experimenter's vs. Participant's hand) vs. Condition (Synchronous vs. Asynchronous) was significant (p = 0.001, F(1, 19) = 17.083, Two Way Repeated Measures ANOVA on standardized variables].”
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“This works both when the participant does not move and when he or she is executing voluntary movements.”
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“The incongruent tactile and muscular information in the asynchronous condition led to a decrease in the strength of the illusion, but could not completely abolish it, as reported by many participants.”
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“In this illusion, synchronous touches applied to a rubber hand in full view of the participant, and the real hand, which is hidden behind a screen, produce the sensations that the touch originates from the rubber hand and a feeling of ownership of the artificial hand.”
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites [17] M Botvinick, 1998, Rubber hands ‘feel’ touch that eyes see., Nature source
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“Although these neurological observations suggest that certain brain regions might be responsible for generating the habitual experience of being located within one's body and of owning it, they tell us little about the underlying processes.”
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“Having the experience of being the owner of one's body is clearly adaptive, and its function probably relates to the problem of localising and correctly identifying oneself in the sensory environment [9], [10], a problem faced by all central nervous systems [11].”
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- Not checked yetcites [9] M Graziano, 2002, How the brain represents the body: insights from neurophysiology and psychology. source
- Not checked yetcites [10] TR Makin, 2008, On the other hand: Dummy hands and peripersonal space., Behavioural Brain Research source
- Not checked yetcites [11] PS Churchland, 2002, Self-Representation in Nervous Systems., Science source
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“Thus, stimulation of one body part seems to produce ownership of the entire body being seen, i.e. the effect of ownership generalised to non-stimulated body parts.”
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“Thus, the SCR results cannot be explained in terms of a general emotional response to seeing the knife, nor can they be explained by differences in the distance between the knife and the cameras because these effects were all controlled for in our experimental design.”
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“By changing the visual perspective, it is possible to induce the feeling of being in a different place [21], [22], [23] or, even, illusory ‘out-of-body experiences’ where people seem to lose ownership of their own body when observing it from the point of view of another person (which we refer to as the third person perspective) [6].”
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites [21] M Minsky, 1980, Telepresence., Omni
- Not checked yetcites [22] MV Sanchez-Vives, 2005, From presence to consciousness through virtual reality., Nat Rev Neurosci source
- Not checked yetcites [23] M Slater, 2007, Understanding and realizing presence in the Presenccia project., IEEE Comput Graph Appl source
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“Thus, even though they were able to recognize their own body through the headsets and visually detect the self-produced squeezing movements of their own hand, they were still influenced by seeing the experimenter's body from the first person perspective.”
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“and localising the arms in space [35].”
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What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [35] RB Welch, 1986, Intersensory interactions.
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“Many multisensory brain areas seem to have particularly large representations of the hands and upper limbs [29], [30]”
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- Not checked yetcites [29] M Graziano, 2006, Parieto-frontal interactions, personal space, and defensive behavior., Neuropsychologia source
- Not checked yetcites [30] G Rizzolatti, 1981, Afferent properties of periarcuate neurons in macaque monkeys. I. Somatosensory responses., Behavioural Brain Research source
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“visual information is particularly important for guiding human hand actions [31], [32], [33], [34]”
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- Not checked yetcites [31] U Castiello, 2005, The neuroscience of grasping., Nat Rev Neurosci source
- Not checked yetcites [32] MSA Graziano, 1999, Where is my arm? The relative role of vision and proprioception in the neuronal representation of limb position., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America source
- Not checked yetcites [33], [34]
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“This implies that visual and somatosensory signals from different body parts are analysed and interpreted together, i.e. that there are inter-dependences between the multisensory integration of different body parts.”
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“The SCR is the peripheral correlate of activity in brain structures related to emotions, and is, therefore, greater when an owned rubber hand is physically injured than when it is not experienced as part of one's body [24].”
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [24] KC Armel, 2003, Projecting sensations to external objects: evidence from skin conductance response., Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences source
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“Emotional defence reactions, such as fear and autonomic arousal, have emerged in the course of evolution to enable one to protect one's own body from physical damage [26], [27].”
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Discussion
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- Not checked yetcites [26] AD Craig, 2002, How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body., Nat Rev Neurosci source
- Not checked yetcites [27] AD Craig, 2003, Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body., Current Opinion in Neurobiology source
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“These observations suggest that gender identity, and differences in the precise shape of the bodies, are not important factors for perceiving a body as one's own.”
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“Participants who did not show a reliable threat-evoked SCR (‘null responders’), i.e. had zero responses in more than two-thirds of the trials, were excluded from the analysis.”
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“Within each session we randomized the order of which hand was threatened (either the experimenter's hand or the participant's hand).”
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“In this framework, the body-swap illusions would arise as a result of the brain's tendency to rely heavily on a lifetime of experiences of seeing the world from the first person perspective with eyes that are fixed at a specific position on the skull, and the fact that the body typically produces certain patterns of sensory signals from the different modalities.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The body typically produces certain patterns of sensory signals from the different modalities.
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In the paper
“the type of stimulation and its location (i.e. hands vs. abdomen) were randomized across sessions and participants [e.g. (Sh Aa Ah Sa) (Aa Sa Sh Ah) (Aa Sh Ah Sa), where S and A stand for synchronous or asynchronous stimulation and h and a represent the place where the stimulation was applied, i.e., to the hands or the abdomen, respectively].”
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Methods > Physiological recordings
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“The two sessions used in the experiment were repeated twice in a pseudo-randomized order [(1, 2, 2, 1) or (2, 1, 1, 2)] to minimize the effect of presentation order.”
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Methods > Physiological recordings
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In the paper
“With respect to the tele-operator literature, it is interesting to note that there are many anecdotal reports of people feeling a robotic arm to be like their own when the robot arm is viewed from a first person perspective via cameras mounted on the robot and when the movements of the robot's arms reproduce the person's movements in real time [51].”
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Discussion
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [51] J Cole, 2000, On the immunity principle: a view from a robot., Trends in Cognitive Sciences source
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In the paper
“Further, the order of sessions and presentations were balanced across individuals.”
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Methods > Physiological recordings
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: fails — The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it.
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In the paper
“The order of the stimulation conditions and the type of object used as threat were randomized across sessions and participants [e.g. (Sk As Ak Ss) (As Ss Sk Ak) (As Sk Ak Ss), where S and A stand for synchronous or asynchronous stimulation and k and s stand for knife or spoon threat, respectively].”
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Methods > Physiological recordings
plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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In the paper
“A key difference probably is that, in the body-swap illusions, the visual, tactile and proprioceptive information is mapped directly onto the multisensory neuronal populations that represent one's own body in ego-centric coordinates.”
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Discussion
hedgedconditional- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
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Probably not a substantial claim. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
The paper relies on this without support.
The questionnaire statements S1–S3 validly capture the illusory experience of being the artificial body, and S4–S7 validly control for suggestibility and task-compliance.
“Three statements were designed to capture the illusory experience of being the artificial body, and the other four served as controls for suggestibility and task-compliance (Figure 2).”
The paper relies on this without support.
Earlier work on body ownership has exclusively studied a single limb, the arm, using the traditional rubber hand illusion.
“Earlier work on body ownership has exclusively studied a single limb, the arm, using the traditional rubber hand illusion.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Until now, it was not known whether the principles underlying changes in ownership would generalise to other body parts, or to an entire body.
“Thus, until now, it was not known whether the principles underlying changes in ownership would generalise to other body parts, or to an entire body.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The body typically produces certain patterns of sensory signals from the different modalities.
“the fact that the body typically produces certain patterns of sensory signals from the different modalities.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The sensory experience of one's own body from the first person perspective is different from recognising oneself in mirrors, TV screens or other image representations as observed from a third person perspective.
“The sensory experience of one's own body from the first person perspective is different from recognising oneself in mirrors, TV screens or other image representations as observed from a third person perspective.”
The paper relies on this without support.
When we recognise ourselves in a mirror, we do not have the experience that we are actually in the mirror, or that there has been a change in ownership of our body.
“When we recognise ourselves in a mirror, for example, we do not have the experience that we are actually in the mirror, or that there has been a change in ownership of our body.”
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“Our experiment also includes that of Petkova and Ehrsson [14] as a special case.”
From First person experience of body transfer in virtual reality (2010) · cites this paper as [14]
The cited source says what the claim attributes to it.
In the citing paper
“The electrodermal response permits to assess the level of arousal: previous studies demonstrated its utility as an objective measure of anxiety under threatening situations or of body illusions29–31.”
From The impact of multisensory integration and perceptual load in virtual reality settings on performance, workload and presence (2021) · cites this paper as [29]
In the citing paper
“BSC includes conscious experiences such as self-identification and self-location [36,37,44,45], as well as the first-person perspective [39,46,47].”
From First-person view of one’s body in immersive virtual reality: Influence on episodic memory (2019) · cites this paper as [44]
In the citing paper
“Autonoetic consciousness is the ability to mentally travel back in subjective time and recollect one’s previous experiences [2,18–20] and the present data suggest that multisensory bodily processing during encoding and remembering are not only of relevance for the conscious bodily experiences of self-identification, self-location, and first-person perspective [36,37,39,44–47], but also autonoetic”
From First-person view of one’s body in immersive virtual reality: Influence on episodic memory (2019) · cites this paper as [44]
In the citing paper
“Illusory ownership over a physical manikin body that substituted the participant's real body was demonstrated in [23].”
From Changing bodies changes minds: Owning another body affects social cognition (2015) · cites this paper as [23]
In the citing paper
“Synchronous tapping on the manikin body and the real body led to illusory body ownership, in a similar way to the more traditional rubber hand and enfacement illusions.”
From Changing bodies changes minds: Owning another body affects social cognition (2015) · cites this paper as [23]
In the citing paper
“There is also evidence that ownership can be attributed to a manikin that appears visually to substitute the person's real body as seen through head-mounted displays coupled to a video camera oriented down at the manikin body [14].”
From First person experience of body transfer in virtual reality (2010) · cites this paper as [14]
In the citing paper
“Their main setup was to also manipulate ownership by a 1PP self-representation (a manikin) that was touched either asynchronously or synchronously – similar to our 1PP and TS′ (girl's perspective and asynchronous stroking) and 1PP and TS (girl's perspective but synchronous stroking), respectively.”
From First person experience of body transfer in virtual reality (2010) · cites this paper as [14]
In the citing paper
“In [14] there was a significantly different skin conductance response when the manikin body was threatened in the synchronous compared to the asynchronous touch condition.”
From First person experience of body transfer in virtual reality (2010) · cites this paper as [14]
In the citing paper
“Additionally there is a critical difference between our experiment and that of Petkova and Ehrsson [14] where cameras on the manikin's head were in a fixed position, looking down at the manikin's body, and therefore the experimental subjects had to have their head fixed in the same orientation.”
From First person experience of body transfer in virtual reality (2010) · cites this paper as [14]
In the citing paper
“We rendered our animation in this way because previous work on ownership has shown that threat-like behavior is often associated with physiological changes [2], [9], [14], [35].”
From First person experience of body transfer in virtual reality (2010) · cites this paper as [14]
In the citing paper
“When people experience ownership over a foreign body, as a result of multisensory stimulation, they also exhibit increased physiological responses to threatening stimuli approaching the body that is attributed to the self [30].”
From The other in me: interpersonal multisensory stimulation changes the mental representation of the self (2012) · cites this paper as [30]
In the citing paper
“Comparable findings have been shown after multisensory stimulation of whole bodies [26]–[29] and in the body-swap illusion [30].”
From The other in me: interpersonal multisensory stimulation changes the mental representation of the self (2012) · cites this paper as [30]
In the citing paper
“When people experience ownership over a foreign body, as a result of multisensory stimulation, they also exhibit increased arousal responses to threatening stimuli approaching this newly owned body [30].”
From The other in me: interpersonal multisensory stimulation changes the mental representation of the self (2012) · cites this paper as [30]
In the citing paper
“The observed changes in arousal for the critical test condition were consistent with those reported in comparable studies on bodily illusions (e.g., [30], [39]).”
From The other in me: interpersonal multisensory stimulation changes the mental representation of the self (2012) · cites this paper as [30]
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- Not confirmedz = -2.599reported p = .028 · recomputed p = .009
“Z = −2.599, p = .028”
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Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Rated major: it would touch a result — a value a result rests on, reported and recomputed p-values on opposite sides of the significance level, two passages that conflict with no sign which is right, or a cited work retracted before this paper was published.
In the paper
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Results > Swapping body with another person
“Finally, we registered a greater SCR when the experimenter's hand was threatened in the synchronous condition than in the asynchronous one (N = 20, p = 0.037, Z = −2.091, two-tailed Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test).”
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Results > Swapping body with another person
“A significantly higher SRC was registered when the ‘new’ body (the experimenter's hand) was threatened with the knife in the illusion condition than when it was threatened in the control condition (p = 0.002, paired two-tailed Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test)”
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Results > Swapping body with another person
“We observed significantly stronger skin conductance responses when the knife was moved near the experimenter's wrist than when it was moved towards the participant's own hand in the synchronous condition (N = 20, p = .0002, Z = −3.099, two-tailed Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test)”
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Results > Swapping body with another person
“or when the physical ‘old’ body was threatened in the illusion condition (p = .037, paired two-tailed Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test).”
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Results > Physiological evidence for owning a new body
“The SCR is significantly greater in the illusion condition than in either of the control conditions (p = .009 and p = .028, two-tailed t-test).”
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Results > Physiological evidence for owning a new body
“N = 10, p = .009, Z = −2.599, p = .028, Z = −2.191, two-tailed Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test”
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Methods > Physiological recordings
“Only the data from the first and the fourth experiments passed the normality test, therefore we used parametric statistical tests to process the data obtained in those two experiments and the data from the other three experiments were tested with non-parametric statistical tests.”
§ If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping > Results > Swapping body with another person
“interaction between the main factors Hands (Experimenter's vs. Participant's hand) vs. Condition (Synchronous vs. Asynchronous) was significant (p = 0.001, F(1, 19) = 17.083, Two Way Repeated Measures ANOVA on standardized variables”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Petkova, V. I., & Ehrsson, H. H.
- Affiliations
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Corresponding author
- Petkova, Valeria I.
- ORCID
- Ehrsson, H. Henrik
- Venue
- PLoS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2008-12-03
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- e3832
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2585011
- OpenAlex
- W2170100837
- Semantic Scholar
- 453a41fc7b9a5c9f588699d731c0dcee1532cef4
- Cited by
- 953
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 59 · 2025: 54 · 2024: 52 · 2023: 56 · 2022: 71 · 2021: 90 · 2020: 85 · 2019: 67 · 2018: 65 · 2017: 47 · 2016: 61 · 2015: 46 · 2014: 54 · 2013: 49 · 2012: 30
- FWCI
- 54.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- European Commission
- Stiftelsen för Strategisk Forskning
- National Institutes of Health
- Medical Research Council
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Keywords
- body ownership, multisensory integration, visual perspective, self-localization, artificial bodies, perceptual illusions
- MeSH terms
- Analysis of Variance, Body Image, Discrimination, Psychological, Female, Gender Identity, Humans, Illusions, Male, Perceptual Distortion, Photic Stimulation, Space Perception, Touch, Visual Perception, Human Body
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