The experimenter stood in front of each seated participant who was asked to extend both arms on the table.
Original rubber hand experiment.
Body transfer illusion is the illusion of owning either a part of a body or an entire body other than one s own thus it is sometimes referred to as body ownership in the research literature.
A cloth covered the stump of the hand but the fingers remained visible.
In 1998 researchers matthew botvinick and jonathan cohen of the university of pittsburgh pa detailed an experiment that people would later refer to as the rubber hand illusion rhi.
Watch how you can trick your brain by stroking a fake rubber hand and your real hand at.
To induce the illusion one.
Watch how you can trick your brain by stroking a fake rubber hand and your real hand at the same time.