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If a person hides their own hand and focuses on a rubber hand instead, they may perceive it as part of their own body under certain conditions. What sounds like a gimmick could one day be used to help ...

Jonathan Cohen, who is the director of the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute, and Matthew Botvinick, who is the lead researcher at Google DeepMind, are currently leading scholars in ...

Obsessive compulsive disorder wreaks havoc on the lives of approximately two to three percent of the world’s population. But despite its prevalence, one of the most-common treatments for the condition ...

A world-famous psychological experiment used to help explain the brain's understanding of the body, as well as scores of clinical disorders, has been dismissed as not fit-for-purpose in a new academic ...

In the classic “rubber hand” illusion, a participant is tricked into experiencing a fake arm on the table in front of them as their own: their brain “feels” the tickle of a feather or other stimuli ...

A world-famous psychological experiment used to help explain the brain's understanding of the body, as well as scores of clinical disorders, has been dismissed as not fit-for-purpose in a new academic ...

Stroking a rubber hand in front of someone while stroking their hidden real hand in the same way can make people feel as if the rubber hand is theirs. But it may take merely the expectation of being ...