The building blocks of the full body ownership illusion

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Maselli, Antonella ^a   Slater, Mel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

First person perspective; Full body ownership illusion; Multisensory integration; Out of body experiences; Perceptual illusions; Rubber hand illusion; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PROPRIOCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 84986226220     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00083     Document Type: Article

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