Subjective, behavioral, and physiological responses to the rubber hand illusion do not vary with age in the adult phase.

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Subjective, behavioral, and physiological responses to the rubber hand illusion do not vary with age in the adult phase.

Roberto Llorens Rosa M. Baños Priscila Palomo Adrián Borrego Ausiàs Cebolla Marcelo Marcos Piva Demarzo

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Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Aging media_common.quotation_subject Skin temperature Illusion Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Audiology Rubber hand illusion 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Embodiment Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Age groups TEORIA DE LA SEÑAL Y COMUNICACIONES Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Multisensory integration Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences media_common Aged Aged 80 and over Proprioception Perceptual illusion 05 social sciences Skin temperature Multisensory integration INGENIERIA TELEMATICA Galvanic Skin Response Middle Aged Hand Proprioception Illusions Artificial limbs Physiological responses Touch Perception Skin conductance Visual Perception Female Psychology Body-ownership Skin Temperature 030217 neurology & neurosurgery

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[EN] The Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) is a perceptual illusion that enables integration of artificial limbs into the body representation through combined multisensory integration. Most previous studies investigating the RHI have involved young healthy adults within a very narrow age range (typically 20-30 years old). The purpose of this paper was to determine the influence of age on the RHI. The RHI was performed on 93 healthy adults classified into three groups of age (20-35 years old, N = 41; 36-60 years old, N = 28; and 61-80 years old, N = 24), and its effects were measured with subjective (Embodiment of Rubber Hand Questionnaire), behavioral (proprioceptive drift), and physiological (changes in skin temperature and conductance) measures. There were neither significant differences among groups in any response, nor significant covariability or correlation between age and other measures (but for skin temperature), which suggests that the RHI elicits similar responses across different age groups in the adult phase.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2018-02-01	Consciousness and cognition

10.1016/j.concog.2017.10.014 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29103810