This illusion makes it feel like the dummy hand is your own hand! | Refresh

Rubber Hand Experiment Baffles Student A cool experiment anyone can try! A teacher shows a student how when he hides the students right hand from his own vision, and replaces it with a prop rubber hand, it shows how the brain can fall for the visual illusion and start to feel sensation in the prop hand rather then the real one. Please be advised that this page’s videos are intended for entertainment purposes only. The videos on this page include scripted dramas, satires, parodies, magic tricks,

Anil Seth explains the classic rubber hand experiment, in his recent Discourse on the neuroscience of consciousness. Watch the full talk on YouTube: https://youtu.be/xRel1JKOEbI Or listen to the talk on our podcast: https://soundcloud.com/royal-institution/sets/ri-science-podcast | Royal Institution of Great Britain

Can your brain be fooled into thinking a fake hand is yours? Alex Dainis explains the “body transfer illusion,” a mind-bending experiment that demonstrates how easily our brains can rewire reality when our senses align. #Science #ScienceExperiment #Illusion #Neuroscience #Brain | Museum of Science, Boston