Sentence examples for bodily illusion from inspiring English sources

He points out that plenty of research has been done into another kind of bodily illusion, phantom limbs.

However, there are a wide variety of bodily illusions.

Empirical research on body representations, bodily sensations, bodily illusions, and self-awareness has grown exponentially.

Bodily illusions have raised a wide range of philosophical questions about the underlying mechanisms of bodily self-awareness.

Third, as described earlier with the Rubber Hand Illusion, action can be immune to bodily illusions (Kammers et al., 2009).

Lenggenhager heard first-hand accounts of various kinds of bodily illusions while doing internships at Zurich university hospitals as she trained to become a neuropsychologist.

Further recent bodily illusions that involve the whole body also indicate that one can feel a virtual avatar or another individual's body as one's own (Ehrsson, 2007; Lenggenhager et al., 2007).

Interestingly, although most of the time I feel my own biological body as my own, the sense of ownership (i.e. I am aware that the hand is mine) can sometimes be at odds with the fact of body ownership (i.e. the hand is mine), like in some bodily illusions and in syndromes of bodily alienation.

They base their argument on illusions of bodily ownership, such as the Rubber Hand Illusion.

Furthermore, it is possible to elicit illusions of bodily ownership by controlling an avatar in a virtual reality setting (Slater, 2008).

We conclude that this sensory illusion underlies a novel, bodily mechanism of socio-affective bonding and enhances our motivation to touch others.