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If a person hides their own hand and focuses on a rubber hand instead, they may perceive it as part of their own body under certain conditions. What sounds like a gimmick could one day be used to help ...

In the classic “rubber hand” illusion, a participant is tricked into experiencing a fake arm on the table in front of them as their own: their brain “feels” the tickle of a feather or other stimuli ...

Mice can develop a sense of embodiment of an artificial limb, similar to humans who participate in the rubber-hand illusion experiment, according to a study published in PLOS Biology by Luc Estebanez ...

The rubber-hand illusion was translated to the mouse model. Just like in humans, embodiment in mice can be achieved by brushing the real forelimb of the mouse and the artificial limb (yellow) in ...