The Bodily Illusion in Adverse Conditions: Virtual Arm Ownership During Visuomotor Mismatch.

Classically, body ownership illusions are triggered by cross-modal synchronous stimulations, and hampered by multisensory inconsistencies. Nonetheless, the boundaries of such illusions have been proven to be highly plastic. In this immersive virtual reality study, we explored whether it is possible to induce a sense of body ownership over a virtual body part during visuomotor inconsistencies, with or without the aid of concomitant visuo-tactile stimulations.

Semantic priming over unrelated trials: evidence for different effects in word and picture naming.

Two naming experiments are reported that replicated previous findings of semantic interference as a result of naming related word or picture primes three trials before picture targets. We also examined whether semantic interference occurred when the materials were reversed and picture or word primes were named before word targets. The interest in semantic interference during word naming followed a suggestion made by Humphreys, Lloyd-Jones, and Fias (1995) that word naming, like picture naming, may be reliant on a semantic route to name retrieval when the two stimuli are mixed.

Practices and hospitals, their physicians, and their noncompetes: breaking up should be hard to do.

The availability of specialty healthcare has become an issue of increasing importance. Practices and hospitals must be encouraged to assume the risk and responsibilities of expanding their fields of care. For their part, courts must give heavier weight to that aspect of the public interest in determining how their decision impacts access to specialty healthcare.