Gender-Bending Body Swap Experiment Leaves Subjects Wanting More

In science fabrication , theatrical role often swap bodies to attain immortality , impersonate as someone else , or take the air a mile in a hump one ’s shoes . Now neuroscientists at the Karolinska Institute have found a way to win over subjects that they ’ve swapped bodies with another person . Men become women , man become mannequins , and the participants are eager to test it again . The inquiry team at the Karolinksa Institute present their findings today at the yearly meeting at the Society for Neuroscience . They provided male and distaff volunteers with sensory input to convince them that they had interchange bodies with another person or a mannequin :

Volunteers experienced the body - swap magic trick by receiving simultaneous optical and motor input from another ’s body . In one experiment , each participant fend across from a manlike mannikin , and in another experimentation volunteers faced a distaff experimenter . A headset covering participants ’ middle displayed a three - dimensional view of the other ’s visual perspective , transmitted from a small telecasting camera set on the mannequin ’s or the woman ’s head . In the mannequin situation , an experimenter at the same time refer the participant ’s paunch and the form ’s stomach with separate probe . So the unpaid worker find a poking in the abdomen but saw the poking happen as if he or she were the mannequin . In the real - person berth , participant and experimenter shook hand . Thus , while volunteers matte the sensation of hand shaking , it appeared to them that they were shaking their own hand . After 10 to 12 second of abdominal touch or paw - shaking , male and distaff participant spontaneously had the experience of looking out from the body of the male fashion model or the female experimenter . They literally feel that they were in the mannequin ’s body getting poked or had embodied the female experimenter and were shaking their own hired hand .

Neither manlike nor female participant had any trouble convert themselves that they had infix the torso of the male mannequin . Similarly , when male volunteers were give sensory input from the female experimenter , they promptly believe that they had swapped bodies with her . And as phantasmagorical as the experience was , presenter Valeria Petkova reported that the topic were ready for another go :

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