Lorimer Moseley NHMRC Senior Research Fellow Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, Australia

Senior Fellow The GAMFI project University of Oxford, UK

Inducing changes in body ownership - incorporating a rubber hand

Blobs demonstrating plasticity in sense of physical self

Ehrsson et al: j NEUROSCi 25,4510564-10573 2005

This shows brain areas associated with the illusion that the rubber hand belongs to you

The rubber hand illusion

Moseley et al PNAS 2008; 105:13169-13173

To see how to do the rubber hand illusion, go to The

rubber hand illusion movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQbygjG0RU

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The rubber hand illusion

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The rubber hand illusion

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Bias in information processing

The rubber hand illusion

These things mean that by experimentally manipulating ownership, we:

(i) Reduce blood flow control

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(i) Reduce tactile processing

Moseley et al PNAS 2008; 105:13169-13173