Innocent Body-Shadow Mimics Physical Body

Innocent Body-Shadow Mimics Physical Body

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The paradigm of the rubber hand illusion was applied to a shadow to determine whether the body-shadow is a good candidate for the alternative belonging to our body.Three kinds of shadows, a physical hand, a hand-shaped cloth, and a rectangle cloth, were tested for this purpose.The questionnaire results showed Oils that both anatomical similarity and visuo-proprioception correlation were effective in enhancing illusory ownership of the shadow.

According to the proprioceptive drift measurement, whether the shadow purely originated from the physical body was a critical factor in yielding the significantly positive drift.Thus, results demonstrated that the shadow can distort illusory ownership with the rubber hand illusion paradigm, EYE SHADOW SHIMMERING NUDES #1505 but the proprioception was clearly distorted only when the body-shadow was purely applied.This implies the presence of special cognitive processing to discriminate the self-body shadow from the others.