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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The brain's perception of the body may seem set in stone, but a new study shows the mind can be tricked into taking an entire virtual body for its own. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

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 ...