The effect of object compliance on the velvet hand illusion

• Main Authors: Pasqualotto, Achille, Chai, Cindy Jia Yin, Ohka, Masahiro, Kitada, Ryo
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Somatosensory; Tactile Illusions
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146435
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Movement of a grid of bars between the two hands creates the tactile illusion of a velvet-like material, namely, the velvet hand illusion (VHI). It was recently proposed that the VHI is caused by a masking effect; bar movement suppresses conscious perception of tactile inputs from the opposing hand....