Threatening a perceptually embodied rubber hand with noxious stimuli has been shown to generate levels of anxiety similar to that experienced when a real hand is threatened.
The aim of this study was to investigate skin conductance response, self-reported anxiety and the incidence, type and location of sensations when a perceptually embodied rubber hand was exposed to threatening and non-threatening stimuli.
Games are excellent tools to enable embodied, first-hand experiences, as renowned educational game researcher James Paul Gee states in his book What Video Games Can Teach Us About Learning and Literacy.
For a show in Athens, and again for the Whitney Biennial in 2002, he re-created Kilgallen's wall paintings, studiously embodying her hand.
However, in the mirror box illusion, the mirror-reflection of their hand is more embodied than a rubber hand before illusion onset, given that it is controlled by the viewer and is their own hand.
Playing an older, more tight-lipped version of the psychotic nanny she embodied in "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (1992), Rebecca De Mornay still knows how to twist maternal instincts into grotesque shapes.
With the big progress of the worldwide scientific research on artificial cognition and brain-computer interface, a fully-embodied hand avatar controlled by our brain with utmost ease will come soon.
Due to deeply sedimented relational strategies that have been built, maintained, and solidified in the course of their everyday lives, the action of logging onto Facebook has become embodied in students' hands and fingers and now occurs habitually.
Embodied in a hand-held type of microscope with image guides, these techniques allow direct observation of microcirculatory flow at the bedside when placed on organ surfaces.
For Xunzi, on the other hand, tian embodied no ethical principle and was simply the name for the functioning activities of the universe (somewhat like our word Nature).
This concern was an expression of changing gender roles; but, while on one hand it embodied a reaction against forces of change, in some respects it also signaled the movement toward greater gender equality.
