This accompanies the paper:
Domna Banakou & Mel Slater (2014) Body Ownership Causes Illusory Self-Attribution of Speaking and Influences Subsequent Real Speaking, PNAS: [ Ссылка ]

Significance Statement
Under normal circumstances we consciously attribute authorship of our actions to ourselves, the sensation of agency. We describe an experiment where participants observed a virtual human character speak and falsely attributed the speaking to themselves. They later shifted the fundamental frequency of their own voice towards the stimulus voice. This only occurred when the life-sized virtual body substituted their own, and moved with their own movements. A further contribution to the effect was vibrotactile stimulation on the thyroid cartilage synchronised with the speaking. This suggests that agency can be self-attributed even in the absence of prior intention, feed forward prediction, priming, and cause preceding effect. A critical contributor is the illusion of ownership over the virtual body that spoke.

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