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Time course of the rubber hand illusion-induced analgesia.
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Mosch B, Fuchs X, Tu T, Diers MAbstract
Previous investigations on pain modulatory effects of the rubber hand illusion (RHI) yielded mixed results. However, these studies used separate stimuli to induce pain and the RHI. Using a visual-thermal stimulation approach, the illusion-inducing stimulus was simultaneously the pain stimulus which ensured that participants focused entirely on the illusion-inducing stimulus.