Pain Disrupts Body Ownership

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VR study reveals how pain and fear weaken sense of body ownership

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A study from Hiroshima University found that when people were told to imagine their virtual bodies in pain, their brains resisted the illusion of ownership.

The sense of body ownership -- the feeling that our body belongs to us -- is crucial in distinguishing ourselves from objects and responding to threats.

Researchers suggest this could be due to multiple factors, one of which being the manipulation of using top-down factors.

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