Since earlier work suggests a right hemispheric dominance for body ownership experience ocklenburg et al 2011 our current experiment was administered only to each participant s left hand and a corresponding rubber hand was employed.
Original rubber hand experiment.
To induce the illusion one.
A cloth covered the stump of the hand but the fingers remained visible.
A lifelike rubber hand was then placed in front of them and lined up with their right shoulder.
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.
The experimenter stood in front of each seated participant who was asked to extend both arms on the table.
It can be induced experimentally by manipulating the visual perspective of the subject and also supplying visual and sensory signals which correlate to the subject s body.