Journal
PERCEPTION
Volume 43, Issue 8, Pages 818-824Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1068/p7733
Keywords
perception; illusion; tongue; touch; vision; multisensory; oral somatosensory
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- COLFUTURO, Colombia
- AHRC
- AHRC [AH/L007053/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Arts and Humanities Research Council [AH/L007053/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We report two experiments, based on a novel variant of the Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI), in which tactile stimulation is referred to an artificial (out-of-body) tongue. In the experiments reported here the participant's tongue was stimulated while they looked at a mirrored dummy tongue. On average, the participants agreed with the statement that they felt as if they had been touched in the location where they saw the rubber tongue being touched (experiment 1), thus demonstrating visual capture. When the external tongue was illuminated with a laser pointer (experiment 2), a significant proportion of the participants reported feeling either tactile or thermal stimulation on their own tongue. These results therefore demonstrate that the multisensory integration of visual, tactile, and proprioceptive information that gives rise to the RHI can be extended to the tongue (a body part that is rarely seen directly).
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