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Nadia Bolognini1, Roberta Ronchi1, Carlotta Casati1
1Department of Psychology (NB, CC, GV), University of Milano-Bicocca, Neuropsychological Laboratory (NB, RR, CC, GV), IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy; Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (RR), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland; and Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (PF), University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.
Abstract:
This study investigates whether the rubber hand illusion (RHI) can induce a remission of somatoparaphrenia, a somatic delusion usually following right-hemisphere damage, which typically manifests as a defective sense of ownership of one's contralesional body parts. First, we show that patients with somatoparaphrenia can experience a reliable RHI, exhibiting illusory effects similar to those reported by healthy participants. Moreover, synchronous touches applied to the patients' visible disowned left hand (rather than to the rubber hand), and to their right invisible unimpaired hand, induce an immediate self-attribution of the disowned hand, without affecting other sensorimotor or attentional disorders. The higher-level representation of the body concerned with ownership, deranged as a somatic delusion in patients with somatoparaphrenia, is penetrable, and can be restored by multisensory stimulations.
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