Commentary: Switching to the Rubber Hand

Frontiers in Psychology

Andreas Kalckert¹ 

关键词: body perception;    sense of ownership;    illusion;    self;    executive functions;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00588

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The rubber hand illusion is a bodily illusion in which participants perceive a fake hand to be part of the body (Botvinick and Cohen, 1998). The illusion is basically a result of repeated stroking to both a model hand (in front of the participant) and the participant's real hand (hidden from view). It has been often anecdotally reported that the illusion occurs quite rapidly. However, more systematic investigations of the onset of the illusion are rare. The present study by Yeh and colleagues examines the relationship between executive functions like attention shifts and the experience of the rubber hand illusion, i.e., they investigate the role of top-down processes in the perception of the illusion (Yeh et al., 2017). Importantly, the authors use not only questionnaire ratings, but also measure the illusion onset, thus asking the participants when “…they begin to experience the rubber hand as belonging to the self…” (p.4). In the following I focus on this specific measurement as part of their investigation.

【 授权许可】

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