Owning an Overweight or Underweight Body: Distinguishing the Physical, Experienced and Virtual Body

Our bodies are the most intimately familiar objects we encounter in our perceptual environment. Virtual reality provides a unique method to allow us to experience having a very different body from our own, thereby providing a valuable method to explore the plasticity of body representation. In this...

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Main Authors: Piryankova, Ivelina V., Wong, Hong Yu, Linkenauger, Sally A., Stinson, Catherine, Longo, Matthew R., Bülthoff, Heinrich H., Mohler, Betty J.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4118886/