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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Perception

Background:

  • Conscious experience fundamentally involves a first-person perspective (1PP).
  • Previous research explored multisensory mechanisms underlying 1PP.
  • The spatial direction of subjective experience remains an area for investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if the experienced direction of 1PP is influenced by visual-tactile-vestibular conflicts.
  • To examine the role of gravitational cues in modulating 1PP direction and self-location.

Main Methods:

  • Sixteen healthy participants in a supine position experienced visuo-tactile stroking to induce a full-body illusion.
  • Gravitational visual object motion was presented towards or away from participants, creating congruent or incongruent multisensory gravitational conflicts.
  • Subjective experiences of 1PP direction and self-location were recorded.

Main Results:

  • Multisensory gravitational conflict altered the experienced direction of 1PP based on visual gravitational cues.
  • Participants reported a downward 1PP direction more frequently when visual object motion was directed away from them.
  • Downward-directed 1PP experiences correlated positively with elevated self-location measures.

Conclusions:

  • Visual gravitational cues significantly contribute to the experienced direction of the first-person perspective.
  • The study demonstrates how multisensory integration, particularly with gravity, shapes our subjective spatial orientation.
  • Findings elucidate the mechanisms defining the subjective location from which we perceive the world.