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  • Perception Psychology
  • Human Body Ownership

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  • Self-orientation perception is crucial for daily activities, relying on visual and vestibular inputs.
  • A clear sense of body ownership is hypothesized to be a prerequisite for self-orientation, but experimental evidence is limited.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the influence of the sense of body ownership on perceived self-orientation.
  • To explore the interplay between visual cues, vestibular information, and body ownership in spatial awareness.

Main Methods:

  • Combined a self-orientation illusion (rotating visual scene) with a full-body ownership illusion paradigm (synchronous/asynchronous tactile-visual stimulation).
  • Utilized a shape-from-shading test with shaded disks to objectively measure perceived self-orientation.
  • Collected subjective self-orientation data via questionnaires.

Main Results:

  • Illusory body ownership significantly affected self-orientation perception, confirmed by both subjective reports and objective shape-from-shading data.
  • The findings suggest that a stronger sense of body ownership enhances the influence of visual cues on self-orientation.

Conclusions:

  • Body ownership is a determining factor in self-orientation perception.
  • This effect is likely mediated by an increased weighting of visual information compared to vestibular signals related to gravity.