Analysis of Electromyography and Skin Conductance Response During Rubber Hand Illusion

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1 *1 *1 *1 *2 *3 *3 *4 *1 Analysis of Electromyography and Skin Conductance Response During Rubber Hand Illusion Takuma TSUJI *1, Hiroshi YAMAKAWA *1, Atsushi YAMASHITA *1 Kaoru TAKAKUSAKI *2, Takaki MAEDA *3, Motoichiro KATO *3 Hiroyuki OKA *4, Hajime ASAMA *1 *1 Department of Precision Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo , Japan *2 Department of Physiology, Devision of Neural Function, Asahikawa Medical University 2-1 Midorigaoka-Higasghi, Asahikawa, Hokkaido , Japan *3 Department of Neuropsychiatry, School of Medicine, Keio University 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo , Japan *4 Department of Joint Disease Research, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo , Japan Recently, brain mechanism of self body recognition attracts much attention, however, most previous researches have only focused on its functional side and lacked a perspective of its modelization. Then in this research we aim at the rubber hand illusion (RHI), which is one of phenomena that the sense of ownership (SOO) expands over the external world, and analyze consciousness of humans by measuring electromyography (EMG) and skin conductance response (SCR). As a result of this research, it can be implied that RHI does not provoke expanse of self body beyond recognition and that measurement of EMG is more superior to that of SCR in the point of instancy for RHI experiment. Key Words : Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI), Sense of Ownership (SOO), Electromyography (EMG), Skin Conductance Response (SCR), Mirror System 1. * tsuji@robot.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp * * * Jeannerod SOO : Sense of ownership (1) (2) 1 (3)

2 Fake Real 212 SCR : Skin conductance responserhi SCR (8) Fig. 1 Experimental condition for the RHI experiment. Left hand of the wall is fake, and right one is real RHI : Rubber hand Illusion (4) Botvinick Cohen Nature RHI 2 (5) EEG : ElectroencephalogramRHI (6) 21 RHI RHI : 7 : RHI RHI (7) 22 RHI RHI RHI RHI RHI RHI RHI 23 RHI RHI 231 EMG : ElectromyographyRHI 232 RHI

3 Radius Real Wall Fake Flexor carpi radialis muscle Fig. 2 Overview of the RHI experiment. Subject s own hand is set at the left side of the wall, and a fake one is set at the right side, and subject can t see an own hand. Red marker shows radius, blue one shows flexor radialis muscle and green one shows biceps brachii. 3. Biceps brachii 2 RHI 2 RHI RHI (9) 2cm 1cm 1cm PowerLab, Bio Amp 1,000Hz Table 1 Questionnaires of introspection report. 1. It seems as if I were feeling the touch of the paintbrush in the location where I saw the rubber hand touched. 2. It seemed as though the touch I felt was caused by the paintbrush touching the rubber hand. 3. I felt as if the rubber hand were my hand. 4. It seemed as if my (real) hand were drifting towards the right (towards the rubber hand). 5. It seemed as if I might have more than one hand or arm. 6. It seemed as if the touch I was feeling came from somewhere between my own hand and the rubber hand. 7. It felt as if my (real) hand were turning rubbery. 8. It appeared (visually) as if the rubber hand were drifting towards the left (towards my hand). 9. The rubber hand began to resemble my own (real) hand, in terms of shape, skin tone, freckles or some other visual feature. 32 RHI PowerLab, Bio Amp 1,000Hz Hz 10 1Hz 1 2Hz Botvinick Cohen 9 (4) YES / NO 1

4 Ratio of YES Ratio of induced muscle tone Questionnaire Before stimulation After stimulation Fig. 3 Result of introspection report. Vertical axis indicates the ratio of subjects who answered YES at each question. Fig. 4 Result of flexor carpi radialis muscle electromyography (EMG). Vertical axis indicates the ratio of subjects who pulled a hand before or after stimulation Ratio of induced mascular reflex Before stimulation After stimulation , 2, 3, 9 YES Botvinick Cohen RHI YES RHI Fig. 5 Result of biceps brachii electromyography (EMG). Vertical axis indicates the ratio of blows which induced a mascular reflex to a subject before or after stimulation. Green bar shows the result of the blow to both a real hand and a fake one, and red one shows the result of the blow to a fake hand only RHI

5 Amount of increase in SCL (μs) Before stimulation Fig. 6 Result of skin conductance response (SCR). Vertical axis indicates the amount of increase in skin conductance level (SCL). Error bars show standard error of the mean (SEM) SCL : Skin conductance level 6 SI[S]1S = 1mho = 1Ω -1 SEMSCL SCL 30 SCL 10 SCL 6.6 RHI 5. After stimulation RHI 5.1 RHI RHI Carpi radialis muscle electromyography (EMG) Not 22 Pulled a hand 78 Skin conductance response (SCR) Not 44 Elevated SCL 56 Fig. 7 Ratio of subjects who pulled a hand in carpi radialis muscle EMG experiment and who elevated SCL in SCR experiment, among nine subjects who answered YES at the questionnaire No. 3 of the introspection report, I felt as if the rubber hand were my hand. Blue area shows the ratio of subjects who pulled a hand or elevated SCL, and red one shows the ratio of subjects who did not. 3 YES YES % 56%

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