Inducing illusory ownership of a virtual body

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2009, Pages 214-220

  Slater, Mel ^a,b,c   Perez Marcos, Daniel ^d   Ehrsson, H Henrik ^e   Sanchez Vives, Maria V ^a,d  

^a INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Body ownership; Presence; Rubber hand illusion; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952740393     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.01.029.2009     Document Type: Review

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