Table 1. List of the 8 statements presented after both the synchronous and asynchronous Interpersonal Multisensory Stimulation (IMS). The questionnaire (adapted by Sforza et al., 2010) included eight statements. The first 3 questions capture the experience of the illusion by measuring: subjective experience of referred sensation (statements 1 and statement 2) and sense of facial ownership (statement 3). Participants were asked to reply to each of the statements using a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) ranging from 0 (= “completely false”) to 12 (= “completely true”).
List of the statements | |
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1. | It seemed as if I was feeling the touch of the paintbrush in the location where I saw the other's face touched. |
2. | It seemed as if the touch I felt was caused by the paintbrush touching the other's face. |
3. | I felt as if the other's face was my face. |
4. | It felt as if my face was drifting toward the other's face. |
5. | It seemed as if I might have more than one face. |
6. | It seemed as if the touch I was feeling came from somewhere between my own face and the other's face. |
7. | It appeared as if the other's face was drifting toward my own face. |
8. | The other's face began to resemble to my own face, in terms of shape, skin tone, or some other visual features. |