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Age-related changes in the sense of body ownership: New insights from the rubber hand illusion

How do age-related changes affect the sense of body ownership? This study tackles this issue by means of the rubber hand illusion (RHI), a widely used experimental tool for investigating the sense of body ownership. There is ample literature on the RHI in young populations, but research on age-relat...

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Autores principales: Marotta, Angela, Zampini, Massimiliano, Tinazzi, Michele, Fiorio, Mirta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6237395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30440038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207528
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description How do age-related changes affect the sense of body ownership? This study tackles this issue by means of the rubber hand illusion (RHI), a widely used experimental tool for investigating the sense of body ownership. There is ample literature on the RHI in young populations, but research on age-related changes in the RHI is still scarce. Here we extend the use of the RHI to examine the changes in the sense of body ownership related to healthy aging. Subjective reports (i.e., questionnaire) and proprioceptive drift were compared among young (n = 22, age range 20–22 years), middle-aged (n = 22, age range 44–55 years), and older adults (n = 22, age range 60–72 years). A stronger subjective experience of illusion was observed in the young and older adults as compared to the middle-aged. No differences in proprioceptive drift were found between the three groups. These findings are discussed in relation to: 1) different stages of development of perceptual and cognitive components of the sense of body ownership, and 2) compensatory mechanisms.
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spelling pubmed-62373952018-12-01 Age-related changes in the sense of body ownership: New insights from the rubber hand illusion Marotta, Angela Zampini, Massimiliano Tinazzi, Michele Fiorio, Mirta PLoS One Research Article How do age-related changes affect the sense of body ownership? This study tackles this issue by means of the rubber hand illusion (RHI), a widely used experimental tool for investigating the sense of body ownership. There is ample literature on the RHI in young populations, but research on age-related changes in the RHI is still scarce. Here we extend the use of the RHI to examine the changes in the sense of body ownership related to healthy aging. Subjective reports (i.e., questionnaire) and proprioceptive drift were compared among young (n = 22, age range 20–22 years), middle-aged (n = 22, age range 44–55 years), and older adults (n = 22, age range 60–72 years). A stronger subjective experience of illusion was observed in the young and older adults as compared to the middle-aged. No differences in proprioceptive drift were found between the three groups. These findings are discussed in relation to: 1) different stages of development of perceptual and cognitive components of the sense of body ownership, and 2) compensatory mechanisms. Public Library of Science 2018-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6237395/ /pubmed/30440038 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207528 Text en © 2018 Marotta et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_sort age-related changes in the sense of body ownership: new insights from the rubber hand illusion
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6237395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30440038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207528
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