virtual hand illusion induced by visuomotor correlations虚拟手visuomotor相关性引起的错觉.pdfVIP

Virtual Hand Illusion Induced by Visuomotor Correlations 1,2 3 4 4 1,5,6 Maria V. Sanchez-Vives *, Bernhard Spanlang , Antonio Frisoli , Massimo Bergamasco , Mel Slater ´ ` 1 Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanc¸ats, Barcelona, Spain, 2 IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain, 3 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 4 PERCRO, CEIICP, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, 5 University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 6 University College London, London, United Kingdom Abstract Background: Our body schema gives the subjective impression of being highly stable. However, a number of easily-evoked illusions illustrate its remarkable malleability. In the rubber-hand illusion, illusory ownership of a rubber-hand is evoked by synchronous visual and tactile stimulation on a visible rubber arm and on the hidden real arm. Ownership is concurrent with a proprioceptive illusion of displacement of the arm position towards the fake arm. We have previously shown that this illusion of ownership plus the proprioceptive displacement also occurs towards a virtual 3D projection of an arm when the appropriate synchronous visuotactile stimulation is provided. Our objective here was to explore whether these illusions (ownership and proprioceptive displacement) can be induced by only synchronous visuomotor stimulation, in the absence of tactile stimulation. Methodology/Principal Findings: To achieve this we used a data-glove that uses sensors transmitting the positions of fingers to a virtually projected hand in the synchronous but not in the asynchronous cond