Rubber hands feel touch, but not in blind individuals.

Psychology and neuroscience have a long-standing tradition of studying blind individuals to investigate how visual experience shapes perception of the external world. Here, we study how blind people experience their own body by exposing them to a multisensory body illusion: the somatic rubber hand i...

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Main Authors: Valeria I Petkova, Hedvig Zetterberg, H Henrik Ehrsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3338767?pdf=render