body swap illusion
neurophilosophy | August 20, 2010DO you think that you perceive your body and the world around you as they really are? If your answer to that question is "yes", then think again. Our perceptions are little more than the brain's best guess of the nature of reality, constructed from fragments of information it receives through the senses. This is demonstrated by visual illusions, which produce discrepancies between physical reality and what we see of it, and by illusions of bodily awareness, which distort the way we perceive our bodies.
Psychologists and neuroscientists have long used illusions to investigate the mechanisms…