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Body ownership increases the interference between observed and executed movements

Burin, D; Kilteni, K; Rabuffetti, M; Slater, M; Pia, L; (2019) Body ownership increases the interference between observed and executed movements. PLOS ONE , 14 (1) , Article e0209899. 10.1371/journal.pone.0209899. Green open access

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Abstract

When we successfully achieve willed actions, the feeling that our moving body parts belong to the self (i.e., body ownership) is barely required. However, how and to what extent the awareness of our own body contributes to the neurocognitive processes subserving actions is still debated. Here we capitalized on immersive virtual reality in order to examine whether and how body ownership influences motor performance (and, secondly, if it modulates the feeling of voluntariness). Healthy participants saw a virtual body either from a first or a third person perspective. In both conditions, they had to draw continuously straight vertical lines while seeing the virtual arm doing the same action (i.e., drawing lines) or deviating from them (i.e., drawing ellipses). Results showed that when there was a mismatch between the intended and the seen movements (i.e., participants had to draw lines but the avatar drew ellipses), motor performance was strongly “attracted” towards the seen (rather than the performed) movement when the avatar’s body part was perceived as own (i.e., first person perspective). In support of previous studies, here we provide direct behavioral evidence that the feeling of body ownership modulates the interference of seen movements to the performed movements.

Type: Article
Title: Body ownership increases the interference between observed and executed movements
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209899
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209899
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2019 Burin et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: Hands, Ellipses, Body limbs, Arms, Sense of agency, Virtual reality, Analysis of variance, Equipment
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10073406
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