Drift and ownership toward a distant virtual body.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2013 Ausiàs Pomés, Mel Slater
In body ownership illusions participants feel that a mannequin or virtual body (VB) is their own. Earlier results suggest that body ownership over a body seen from behind in extra personal space is possible when the surrogate body is visually stroked and tapped on its back, while spatially and temporal synchronous tactile stimulation is applied to the participant's back. This result has been...