The relationship between virtual body ownership and temperature sensitivity

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 10, Issue 85, 2013, Pages

  Llobera, Joan ^a,e   Sanchez Vives, M V ^a,b,c   Slater, Mel ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

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

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

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body ownership; Body representation; Rubber hand illusion; Skin temperature cooling; Temperature sensitivity threshold; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

VIRTUAL REALITY;

BODY OWNERSHIP; BODY REPRESENTATIONS; FIRST-PERSON PERSPECTIVES; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY; SENSITIVITY TO TEMPERATURES; SKIN TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DECREASE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

RUBBER;

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE SENSATION; COOLING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MALE; PAIN THRESHOLD; PROPRIOCEPTION; SKIN SURFACE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VIBRATION SENSE; VIRTUAL REALITY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; HAND; PERCEPTION; BODY OWNERSHIP; BODY REPRESENTATION; RUBBER HAND ILLUSION; SKIN TEMPERATURE COOLING; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY THRESHOLD;

BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

BODY OWNERSHIP; BODY REPRESENTATION; RUBBER HAND ILLUSION; SKIN TEMPERATURE COOLING; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY THRESHOLD; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84891375351     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0300     Document Type: Article

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