Virtual reality ‘embodiment illusions’ may help the skewed perceptions behind body image disturbances
- Written by Jade Portingale, PhD Candidate, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Franz12 / ShutterstockMost of the time, our brains are very good at blending together input from all our senses into a seamless, unified conscious experience of “my body”. When this process of integrating different sensory signals goes wrong, according to one theory, it can give a person an inaccurate and distressing sense of their...





