Original Rubber Hand Experiment

Watch how you can trick your brain by stroking a fake rubber hand and your real hand at.

Original rubber hand experiment. In 1998 researchers matthew botvinick and jonathan cohen of the university of pittsburgh pa detailed an experiment that people would later refer to as the rubber hand illusion rhi. Body transfer illusion is the illusion of owning either a part of a body or an entire body other than one s own thus it is sometimes referred to as body ownership in the research literature. Watch how you can trick your brain by stroking a fake rubber hand and your real hand at the same time. The experimenter stood in front of each seated participant who was asked to extend both arms on the table.

A cloth covered the stump of the hand but the fingers remained visible. A lifelike rubber hand was then placed in front of them and lined up with their right shoulder.