Rubber Hand Illusion Brain Games

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Rubber hand illusion brain games.

And hopefully this will convince you that the rubber hand is your own that your brain will actually adopt this hand. They re the hosts of one of ellen s favorite new shows brain games where they explore incredible tricks of the brain. Researchers in italy performed the trick on a group of. When participants in the study confused a rubber hand for their own their hidden hands became half a degree colder.

And slowly but. In the illusion simply watching the rubber hand being stroked at the same time as the real hand is enough to trick the brain into adopting it as its own. The now famous rubber hand illusion was not only a mind blowing party trick it was also hugely important in understanding how sight touch and proprioception the sense of body. Experiments with a fake body part have revealed how the brain becomes confused during a party trick known as the rubber hand illusion.