Are movements necessary for the sense of body ownership? Evidence from the rubber hand illusion in pure hemiplegic patients.

A question still debated within cognitive neuroscience is whether signals present during actions significantly contribute to the emergence of human's body ownership. In the present study, we aimed at answer this question by means of a neuropsychological approach. We administered the classical r...

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Main Authors: Dalila Burin, Alessandro Livelli, Francesca Garbarini, Carlotta Fossataro, Alessia Folegatti, Patrizia Gindri, Lorenzo Pia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117155