BOCHUM, Germany — Your brain is easily fooled, and that might be a good thing for pain relief. International researchers have ...

If a person hides their own hand and focuses on a rubber hand instead, they may perceive it as part of their own body under certain conditions. What sounds like a gimmick could one day be used to help ...

Jonathan Cohen, who is the director of the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute, and Matthew Botvinick, who is the lead researcher at Google DeepMind, are currently leading scholars in ...

Chances are good that you’ve seen entertaining footage of the so-called “rubber hand illusion,” where someone becomes convinced that a fake rubber hand is actually their own. It’s more than a clever ...

Stroking a rubber hand in front of someone while stroking their hidden real hand in the same way can make people feel as if the rubber hand is theirs. But it may take merely the expectation of being ...