{"id":67898,"date":"2025-11-11T22:42:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/the-illusion-of-body-swapping\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:42:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:42:39","slug":"the-illusion-of-body-swapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/the-illusion-of-body-swapping\/","title":{"rendered":"The illusion of body swapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people stand opposite each other, on their heads are helmets with screens in which a camera is built-in. The camera broadcasts an image of one person on the screen of another and vice versa, i.e. both of them see their own body through the eyes of a third person placed at the same point as the other person. If you touch both at the same time, they will perceive the sensation as having arisen in someone else&#8217;s body. For an illusion to occur, bottom-up perceptual mechanisms, such as visual information, must prevail over the top-down knowledge that a certain body (or part of it) belongs to another person.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people stand opposite each other, on their heads are helmets with screens in which a camera is built-in. The camera broadcasts an image of one person on the screen of another and vice versa, i.e. both of them see their own body through the eyes of a third person placed at the same point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-physiological-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}