Virtual reality and telepresence — Virtual arms in 360-degree-camera immersive telepresence

Slow, affective stroking would strengthen ownership of a virtual body more than fast stroking, as it does for the rubber hand illusion.

A first study found more subjective ownership with slow (3 cm/s) than fast (30 cm/s) stroking. A second study again found the usual synchronous-versus-asynchronous effect but did not reproduce the slow-versus-fast difference, so the authors could not conclude that affective touch enhances the full-body illusion.

Why it matched: similar wording · failed the same way: Held in the model species, not beyond it

Real-world objects, unlike simple coloured squares, benefit from extra encoding time and escape the usual three-to-four-item working-memory limit, as shown behaviourally and in the contralateral delay activity (CDA) by Brady et al. (2016).

Three replications with more participants and more trials per condition did not reproduce the key result that objects gain more than colours from longer viewing, and found no object-specific CDA increase. Extra encoding time helped both colours and objects.

Why it matched: failed the same way: Held in the model species, not beyond it