In my last article, I introduced the concept of brain illusions whereby people can “adopt” a fake hand as their own, and I mentioned how people with eating disorders are much more susceptible to this ...

Most of the time, our brains are very good at blending together input from all our senses into a seamless, unified conscious experience of "my body." When this process of integrating different sensory ...

New research has discovered that briefly altering how we perceive our own body can help unlock autobiographical memories—potentially even those from the early stages of childhood. Published in ...

If leaving your own body behind or having an extra or virtual arm is not enough for you, how about switching bodies with someone else? In late 2008, Ehrsson and his colleague Valeria Petkova described ...

This is a variant on the rubber hand illusion that creates the peculiar sensation of having three arms, a bit like Zaphod Beeblebrox in the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Set up the rubber hand ...

Most of the time, our brains are very good at blending together input from all our senses into a seamless, unified conscious experience of “my body.” When this process of integrating different sensory ...

In the 2003 movie, Freaky Friday, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, mother and daughter wake up one morning to find they’ve switched bodies. It’s a catchy enough plot to have been reprised ...

This illusion gives important insight into how someone could start thinking that their body looks different than it actually does. I argue that the most important aspect of this process is our ...

Most of the time, our brains are very good at blending together input from all our senses into a seamless, unified conscious experience of “my body”. When this process of integrating different sensory ...