Tracking interoceptive awareness throughout stages of agency in the rubber hand illusion

• Project/Area Number: 22K18158
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 90030:Cognitive science-related
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Lynch SeanDean 東京大学, ニューロインテリジェンス国際研究機構, 特任研究員 (00933029)
• Project Period (FY): 2022-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Project Status: Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000); Fiscal Year 2023: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000); Fiscal Year 2022: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
• Keywords: Experimental psychology / Interoception / Body ownership

Outline of Research at the Start

This project will conduct three studies investigating the role of interoceptive and exteroceptive signals on the sense of body ownership.
These studies will take into consideration multi-modal signal processing awareness to advance knowledge of the underlying mechanisms involved in body ownership