In the traditional rubber hand illusion, the feeling of touch on the rubber hand is associated with a drift in the perceived location of the hand towards the location of the rubber hand [25], [28], [39], with both hands having the same handedness.
The lunch had the feeling of any fund-raiser: rubber chicken, an earnest children's chorus (to which no one listened) and lots of schmoozing.
That is to say, the more strongly a participant experienced a feeling of ownership for the rubber hand, the more strongly they experienced a feeling of disownership for the real hand.
It could just as easily be only touch referral the feeling of touch on the rubber hand that is experienced, absent the richer phenomenology involving ownership, because touch referral is actually the illusion's most distinctive perceptual event (Ehrsson, 2012).
This "bimanual transfer of touch" is also associated with the feeling of ownership of the rubber hand.
Previous work has demonstrated a relationship between the feeling of ownership of a rubber hand and the anxiety experienced when this hand is being subjected to physical threats [36], [37].
This elicited an illusion of sensing touch on the artificial hand, rather than on the stump and a feeling of ownership of the rubber hand developed.
No causal link between changes in hand position sense and feeling of limb ownership in the rubber hand illusion.
It's hard to believe the passionate feelings I have for an athletic-looking band of rubber that these days is worn by everyone from grandchildren to grandmothers.
The rubber hand illusion: feeling of ownership and proprioceptive drift do not go hand in hand.
