2010
DOI: 10.1177/0956797610379234
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Synchronous Multisensory Stimulation Blurs Self-Other Boundaries

Abstract: In a study that builds on recent cognitive neuroscience research on body perception and social psychology research on social relations, we tested the hypothesis that synchronous multisensory stimulation leads to self-other merging. We brushed the cheek of each study participant as he or she watched a stranger's cheek being brushed in the same way, either in synchrony or in asynchrony. We found that this multisensory procedure had an effect on participants' body perception as well as social perception. Study pa… Show more

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“…At the same time, the strength of illusion appears to be modulated by an internal model of what the human body is like: Objects that differ morphologically from the human body are less easily incorporated (e.g., de Vignemont, Tsakiris, & Haggard, 2006;Tsakiris & Haggard, 2005). The rubber-hand illusion has been used extensively as an experimental paradigm in research aimed at understanding the mechanisms behind our sense of embodiment (e.g., Longo, Schüür, Kammers, Tsakiris, & Haggard, 2008), personal impressions of body-ownership and self-consciousness (e.g., Ehrsson, Spence, & Passingham, 2004;Lenggenhager, Tadi, Metzinger, & Blanke, 2007), or self-other merging (e.g., Paladino, Mazzurega, Pavani, & Schubert, 2010).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At the same time, the strength of illusion appears to be modulated by an internal model of what the human body is like: Objects that differ morphologically from the human body are less easily incorporated (e.g., de Vignemont, Tsakiris, & Haggard, 2006;Tsakiris & Haggard, 2005). The rubber-hand illusion has been used extensively as an experimental paradigm in research aimed at understanding the mechanisms behind our sense of embodiment (e.g., Longo, Schüür, Kammers, Tsakiris, & Haggard, 2008), personal impressions of body-ownership and self-consciousness (e.g., Ehrsson, Spence, & Passingham, 2004;Lenggenhager, Tadi, Metzinger, & Blanke, 2007), or self-other merging (e.g., Paladino, Mazzurega, Pavani, & Schubert, 2010).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, after synchronous multisensory stimulation (SMS) with an unfamiliar face, observers report more positive affective reactions and more conformity behaviour toward the unfamiliar face than after asynchronous stimulation (Paladino et al, 2010). This effect is also seen in the domain of emotion recognition, as SMS of the face enhances observers' sensitivity to others' fearful facial expressions (Maister et al, 2013b).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 70%
“…Embodied accounts suggest that the body experience determines sociocognitive processing (e.g., Gallese, Keysers, & Rizzolatti, 2004), and research of the rubber hand and enfacement illusion support this claim (e.g., Bufalari,Lenggenhager,Porciello,& Aglioti,4 2014; Fini, Cardini, Tajadura-Jiménez, Serino, & Tsakiris, 2013;Maister, Sebanz, Knoblich, & Tsakiris, 2013a;Maister et al, 2013b;Paladino et al, 2010). For example, after synchronous multisensory stimulation (SMS) with an unfamiliar face, observers report more positive affective reactions and more conformity behaviour toward the unfamiliar face than after asynchronous stimulation (Paladino et al, 2010).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 76%
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“…Recent experiments have shown that the perception of tactile stimuli on one's face can be modulated by concurrent visual touches delivered to a picture of one's own face (e.g. Serino, Giovagnoli, & Làdavas, 2009;Serino, Pizzoferrato, & Làdavas, 2008), and conversely that visual self-recognition can be modulated by the level of congruency of seen and felt tactile facial inputs (Paladino, Mazzurega, Pavani, & Schubert, 2010;Sforza, Bufalari, Haggard, & Aglioti, 2010;Tsakiris, 2009). Likewise, increased proprioceptive awareness of one's own head and inwardly focusing on one's own breathing were associated, respectively, with improved size estimation of one's own head (Bianchi, Savardi, & Bertamini, 2008) and faster discrimination of mirror reversed self faces (Smith et al, 2008).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%