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 ...

At last, out of body experiences (OBEs) are starting to make sense. They are disturbances – whether deliberate or accidental – of our body schema. This is the brain’s continuously updated model of our ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Shaking hands with yourself is an amusing out-of-body experience. The illusion of having your stomach slashed with a kitchen knife, not so much. Both sensations, however, felt ...

This South Korean artist has been hard at work creating mind-bending illusion art using her body as a canvas, so check out ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shaking hands with yourself is an amusing out-of-body experience. The illusion of having your stomach slashed with a kitchen knife, not so much. Both sensations, however, felt real ...

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 the ...

This illustration shows our experimental setup where participants viewed a virtual body through VR goggles and received touch on their back. The experiment revealed that different interpretations of ...

We have minds and we have bodies and never the twain shall meet. At least that’s how it feels. In 1641, Rene Descartes published his world changing Meditations on First Philosophy declaring the ...

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. Manipulation of the visual perspective, 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 ...