Just as scientists build theories to make sense of the world, so your brain generates its own hypotheses to interpret reality ...

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 ...

In another variant on the rubber hand illusion, Mel Slater of UPC Barcelona Tech, Spain, recently persuaded 21 people that a virtual arm was their own. She showed volunteers a computerised image of a ...

The concept of an individual swapping his or her body with that of another person has captured the imagination of writers and artists for decades. Although this topic has not been the subject of ...

The feeling of being inside one's own body is not as self-evident as one might think. In a new study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet, neuroscientists created an out-of-body illusion in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers using closed-circuit televisions to create an illusion have made volunteers virtually swap bodies, even making women believe they were in a man's body and vice-versa ...

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 ...