Brain monitoring of errors in one's own and other's actions is crucial for a variety of
processes, ranging from the fine-tuning of motor skill learning to important social functions,
such as reading out and anticipating the intentions of others. Here, we combined immersive
virtual reality and EEG recording to explore whether embodying the errors of an avatar by
seeing it from a first-person perspective may activate the error monitoring system in the brain
of an onlooker. We asked healthy participants to observe, from a first-or third-person …

Imagine a situation where you are uncertain if you see yourself, for example on a shady
screen recording. In this situation many people do instinctively the same: eg, they wave their
hands, and see if that other hand moves the same way. However when you look down
yourself instead of the screen, you simply sense it is your body. The body you feel and the
body you see naturally coincide and gives you a sense that this body right there is yours. It
has been suggested that this sense of voluntarily control (Sense of agency) and the sense …