Full-body illusion experiment: Influence of the manipulation of top-down interpretation (IMAGE)

Hiroshima University

Full-body illusion experiment: Influence of the manipulation of top-down interpretation

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This illustration shows our experimental setup where participants viewed a virtual body through VR goggles and received touch on their back. The experiment revealed that different interpretations of the virtual body led to different outcomes: when interpreted as "my body," the illusion occurred, but when interpreted as "my body with abdominal pain," the illusion was inhibited.

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Kazuki Yamamoto & Takashi Nakao, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University

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