Affective vocalizations influence body ownership as measured in the rubber hand illusion.

Emotional signals, like threatening sounds, automatically ready the perceiver to prepare an appropriate defense behavior. Conjecturing that this would manifest itself in extending the safety zone around the body we used the rubber hand illusion (RHI) to test this prediction. The RHI is a perceptual...

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Main Authors: Tahnée Engelen, Rebecca Watson, Francesco Pavani, Beatrice de Gelder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5628997?pdf=render