title: The Mirrored Hand Illusion: I Control, So I Possess?
abstract: Certain situations may not only cause people to misjudge external information but also distort people's perception of themselves. The present study is the first to report the mirrored hand illusion which could be generated when the experimenter imitated the fist-clenching movements of the subject synchronously. The subjects formed the illusion that the experimenter's hand was "something I can control" when being imitated synchronously. In addition, a sense of ownership over the alien hand was established by integrating multisensory signals and comparing these signals with preexisting body presentations. This method might represent a new avenue for research on the formation of self-consciousness.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China zhouab@nwnu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Aibao
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: Yanchi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: Yulong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness; D001828:Body Image; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity; D009903:Optical Illusions; D010469:Perceptual Distortion; D011601:Psychophysics; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Mirror imitation; self-consciousness; sense of agency; sense of ownership