Lab Introduction

Philosophy and Virtual Body Lab is the first and only lab in Taiwan that integrates VR technologies into philosophical and interdisciplinary research. The goal is to achieve a deeper understanding of bodily experience and self-consciousness via VR experiments. Recently we have been studying the following issues: How does virtual reality influence our sense of body ownership? What is the distinction between the first-person perspective (1PP) and the third-person perspective (3PP)? What is the relation between bodily experience and self-consciousness? Are “body ownership” and “experiential ownership” the same subjective experiences? Is “self-location” identical with “body-location”? We have also developed several new bodily illusions, including: “Self-touching illusion”, “Four-hand illusion”, “Body ownership from 3PP” and “Double-body effect”.