Heart in your hand? Neuroscientists discover a new illusion of consciousness | University of Sussex - http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsand...
Oct 26, 2013
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Anne Bouey,
Banu Pluie,
Ken Morley,
etesien,
vulpius,
Adriano,
Victor Ganata,
Steve C, Team Marina,
Andrew C (see frenf.it),
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"The sight of a virtual-reality hand pulsing in time with your heart beat is enough to convince your brain that it’s part of your body, according to new research carried out at the University of Sussex. (...) Neuroscientists and psychologists have long been fascinated by the ‘rubber hand illusion’, a clever trick whereby a fake hand is perceived as part of one’s body if it is stroked simultaneously with one’s real hand. This illusion shows that the brain constructs the experience of ‘having a body’ and that this experience depends on integration of visual and tactile (touch) sensory signals."
- Amira
"Until now, little has been known about how the experience of ‘body ownership’ depends on perception of the body’s internal processes, like the heartbeat. Yet perception of the body “from within” is thought to be crucial for emotion and consciousness. (...)
The researchers found that the virtual hand was more likely to be experienced as part of a person’s body when the ‘cardio-visual’ feedback was aligned with the actual heartbeat, than when it was misaligned. This shows that the brain integrates its perception of the body from the outside with its perception from the inside in determining what is experienced as its body."
- Amira
This could have great implications for raves.
- Andrew C (see frenf.it)
See also research paper "Multisensory integration across exteroceptive and interoceptive domains modulates self-experience in the rubber-hand illusion" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science... (thx Adriano)
- Amira