In the now-famous rubber-hand illusion, psychologists at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University convinced people that an obviously fake hand had replaced their own.

A rubber hand alleviates pain Date: March 18, 2025 Source: Ruhr-University Bochum Summary: If a person hides their own hand and focuses on a rubber hand instead, they may perceive it as part of ...

They found that they could convince people that a rubber hand was their own by putting it on a table in front of them while stroking it in the same way as their real hand (see box, for a how-to ...

Scientists figured out how to conduct the "rubber hand illusion" with lab mice. | Credit: Andrew Belik / 500px via Getty Images People with artificial limbs can come to sense their prosthetic as ...

This phenomenon is called the body transfer illusion. The canonical example of the body transfer illusion is the rubber hand experiment. In it, a subject’s hand is obscured from view ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQbygjG0RU The rubber hand illusion is more than a vaguely creepy parlor trick. It's a window into relationship between our mental ...

To address this challenge, Estebanez and colleagues developed an analog of the rubber-hand illusion embodiment protocol for mice.The researchers presented head-fixed mice with an artificial, 3D ...

When someone sees a rubber hand being stroked while their actual hand is hidden from view and stroked simultaneously, they can begin to “embody” it – to feel that the rubber hand is their ...