Oneof the most well-known multisensory illusions. In this illusion, a participant views a fakehand whilst their real hand is out of sight. When the real and fake hands are strokedsynchronously, adult participants experience the fake hand as belonging tothemselves, and their judgments concerning the location of their real hand arebiased towards the fake hand. It turnsout that this is also the case in young children except even more so (see Cowie, Makin, & Bremner, 2013). The first experiment to report the effects of the rubber hand illusion appears to have been that carried out by Botvinick and Cohen (1998).
See Cross-modal coordination, Cross-modal matching
Botvinick, M., &Cohen, J. (1998). Rubber hands ‘feel’ touch that eyes see. Nature, 391, 755-756.
Cowie,D., Makin, T., & Bremner, A. J. (2013). Children’s responses to the rubberhand illusion reveal dissociable pathways in body representations. PsychologicalScience, 24, 762-769.