Now just relax, no one can see you

• Autores: Anil Ananthaswamy
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3019, 2015, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Over 15 years ago, psychologists found they could convince people that a rubber hand was their own by putting the fake hand on a table in front of them and stroking it and the person's own hand at the same time. In 2008, Henrik Ehrsson at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and his team extended this illusion to the full body by taking a life-size mannequin with cameras for eyes, and pointing its head towards its abdomen. A human volunteer stood facing the mannequin, and wore virtual reality goggles displaying a video feed from the mannequin's cameras. When researchers stroked both the volunteer's and the mannequin's abdomens at the same time using brushes, people reported feeling that the mannequin's body was their own.