Inside virtual reality, users can embody avatars that are collocated from a first-person
perspective. When doing so, participants have the feeling that the own body has been …

Several disciplines have investigated the interconnected empathic abilities behind the
proverb “to walk a mile in someone else's shoes” to determine how the presence, and …

To probe the causal importance of the human posteromedial cortex (PMC) in processing the
sense of self, we studied a rare cohort of nine patients with electrodes implanted bilaterally …

User embodiment is important for many virtual reality (VR) applications, for example, in the
context of social interaction, therapy, training, or entertainment. However, there is no data …

Usually, we do not question that we possess a body and act upon the world. This pre-
reflective awareness of being a bodily and agentive self can, however, be disrupted by …

An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the
human body, from prehistory to the present. An increasingly influential school of thought in …

A significant body of experimental evidence has demonstrated that it is possible to induce
the illusion of ownership of a fake limb or even an entire fake body using multisensory …

The sense of agency refers to the subjective feeling of controlling one's own actions, and
through them, external events. The sense of agency is a byproduct of human movements …

What does it feel like to own, to control, and to be inside a body? The multidimensional
nature of this experience together with the continuous presence of one's biological body …

Which is my body and how do I distinguish it from the bodies of others, or from objects in the
surrounding environment? The perception of our own body and more particularly our sense …