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Proprioceptive uncertainty promotes the rubber hand illusion

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CORTEX
卷 165, 期 -, 页码 70-85

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ELSEVIER MASSON, CORP OFF
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2023.04.005

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Bodily awareness; Multisensory integration; Psychophysics; Bayesian causal inference; Bodily illusion; Proprioception

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This article investigates the multisensory perception of body ownership and explores the mechanisms underlying the emergence of body ownership illusions such as the visuotactile rubber hand illusion using Bayesian causal inference models. The study finds that proprioception and its relative reliability influence this inferential process and verifies this hypothesis through a rubber hand illusion experiment. The results demonstrate that proprioceptive uncertainty shapes multisensory perception. These findings offer important insights into our understanding of the formation of body ownership.
Body ownership is the multisensory perception of a body as one's own. Recently, the emergence of body ownership illusions like the visuotactile rubber hand illusion has been described by Bayesian causal inference models in which the observer computes the probability that visual and tactile signals come from a common source. Given the impor-tance of proprioception for the perception of one's body, proprioceptive information and its relative reliability should impact this inferential process. We used a detection task based on the rubber hand illusion where participants had to report whether the rubber hand felt like their own or not. We manipulated the degree of asynchrony of visual and tactile stimuli delivered to the rubber hand and the real hand under two levels of proprioceptive noise using tendon vibration applied to the lower arm's antagonist extensor and flexor muscles. As hypothesized, the probability of the emergence of the rubber hand illusion increased with proprioceptive noise. Moreover, this result, well fitted by a Bayesian causal inference model, was best described by a change in the a priori probability of a common cause for vision and touch. These results offer new insights into how proprioceptive un-certainty shapes the multisensory perception of one's own body.& COPY; 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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