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Rubber hand illusion under delayed visual feedback.

Sotaro Shimada¹, Kensuke Fukuda, Kazuo Hiraki

¹Department Electronics and Bioinformatics, School of Science and Technology, Meiji University, Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Japan. sshimada@isc.meiji.ac.jp

|July 10, 2009

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The rubber hand illusion (RHI) requires synchronous visual and tactile stimulation. Temporal discrepancies under 300 ms are critical for maintaining a strong RHI and sense of body ownership.

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Psychology
Somatosensory research

Background:

The rubber hand illusion (RHI) demonstrates self-ownership of a prosthetic limb through synchronous touch.
Previous research shows RHI diminishes with asynchronous touch, but the critical temporal window is unknown.

Purpose of the Study:

To determine the minimum temporal discrepancy between visual and tactile stimuli that attenuates the rubber hand illusion.
To investigate the temporal window for multisensory integration in body ownership perception.

Main Methods:

Systematic testing of RHI under various visual feedback delay conditions.
Quantifying RHI strength and proprioceptive drift across different temporal discrepancies.

Main Results:

Significantly stronger RHI effects were observed with temporal discrepancies less than 300 ms.
Proprioceptive drift, a measure of RHI, also showed similar sensitivity to temporal discrepancies.

Conclusions:

A temporal window of less than 300 ms is crucial for inducing a strong rubber hand illusion.
This time window is critical for multisensory integration underlying the sense of self-body image.