Breathing and the experience of body ownership

The experience of the body is considered to be constructed out of multisensory cues that involves a variety of sensory modalities. These involve for example somatosensory cues from the skin, proprioceptive cues from the muscles, but also interoceptive cues such as heart beat and respiration.

In this project, together with Prof Marcello Costantini (University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy), we investigate the role of breathing in the rubber hand illusion.