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Octopuses Fall for the Rubber Hand Illusion, Just Like Humans, Pointing to a Sense of Body Ownership
Octopuses, they’re just like us: New research suggests the eight-armed cephalopods are also fooled by a version of the rubber hand trick. In humans, this illusion involves covering a person’s hand so ...
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 ...
Just like humans, octopuses can be fooled by an illusion that makes them think a fake arm is actually theirs. First demonstrated in the late 1990s, the rubber hand illusion involves hiding a person’s ...
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