Abstract

The feeling of body ownership is a peculiar aspect of bodily self-awareness which allows us to distinguish it from other objects in the external world. Usually, in fact, we do not experience this kind of feeling toward objects other than our own body, however, the paradigm of the rubber hand illusion has allowed a series of sensory inputs to be combined in order to generate the feeling of ownership over an artificial hand. This result provided old explanatory models about the emergence of ownership of body parts to be revised and initiated several researches aimed at investigating their underlying neural mechanisms. Our body representation depends on the integration of several inputs (e.g., visual, proprioceptive and tactile information), however the role of auditory cues on bodily perception have been less investigated.