Multisensory stimulation can induce an illusion of larger belly size in immersive virtual reality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Normand, Jean Marie ^a   Giannopoulos, Elias ^a   Spanlang, Bernhard ^a   Slater, Mel ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

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

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY GROWTH; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PROCESS MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; BODY IMAGE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ILLUSION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; STOMACH; TOUCH;

BODY IMAGE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; STOMACH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79251642732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016128     Document Type: Article

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