Figure 5.

Strong Updating of Self-Concept during the Friend-Body-Swap Illusion (syncF) Was Related to Less Impaired Recognition Memory of Personality Traits That Occurred during This Condition

(A) A schematic illustration of the memory task (orange, green, blue, and yellow bars represent items rated during syncF, asyncF, syncS, and asyncS, respectively; gray boxes represent new items).

(B) Memory performance for words encoded during the friend-body-swap illusion was generally reduced (means ± SE). For all subjects' individual data points, see Figure S3B.

(C) Strong updating of the self-concept toward the friend-concept during the friend-body-swap illusion was related to less impaired memory performance in syncF.

(D) Analogously, among the participants who showed strong updating of self-concept during syncF (≥median “similarity updating score”; syncF – avg. (asyncF, syncS, asyncS); N = 33), there was no significant difference between memory performance in syncF and in other conditions. In turn, the participants who showed weaker self-concept updating during syncF (<median “similarity updating score”; N = 32) remembered significantly fewer items from the syncF than from the control conditions (means ± SE). Please note that the median split was performed mainly for display purposes and to complement the main analyses shown in (B) and (C).