Mice have been shown to experience an artificial sense of limb ownership, similar to the famous "rubber-hand illusion" in humans. "The rubber hand illusion is a staple of the study of body ...

Mice can develop a sense of embodiment of an artificial limb, similar to humans who participate in the rubber-hand illusion experiment, according to a study published in PLOS Biology by Luc Estebanez ...

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 ...

Scientists have introduced a new laboratory model that could help them study how artificial limbs can be better designed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Like humans, octopuses can fall for the rubber hand illusion and believe that a fake arm is theirs. This suggests they have a sense of their own body, just as we do. The rubber hand illusion is a ...

If a person hides their own hand and focuses on a rubber hand instead, they may perceive it as part of their own body under certain conditions. What sounds like a gimmick could one day be used to help ...

People with artificial limbs can come to sense their prosthetic as part of their body — and in a new study, scientists showed that lab mice can also experience this same type of "embodiment." The ...