Nadine Spychala

Nadine Spychala

Doctoral researcher at Sussex University. Working on formal measures of complexity and emergence. Information Theory | Machine Learning | Research Software | Open, Reproducible & Ethical Science. She/her.

Rubber hand illusion increases pain caused by electric stimuli

Published in The Journal of Pain, 2017

Recommended citation: Siedlecka, M., Spychała, N., Łukowska, M., Wiercioch, K., & Wierzchoń, M. (2018). Rubber hand illusion increases pain caused by electric stimuli. The Journal of Pain, 19(1), 35-45. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1526590017306855

Rubber hand illusion increases pain caused by electric stimuli | Nadine Spychala

In this study, we investigated the relationship between pain and the rubber hand illusion (RHI) by inducing the RHI and stimulating the participants hands with electrical stimuli in a double-blind procedure. We found that electrical stimuli were experienced as more painful on the hand under the illusion, while being localized between the real and the rubber hand. This might suggest that uncertainty about the location of pain increases its intenstiy.