Octopuses can be fooled into thinking a fake arm is actually their own. When scientists in Japan pinched an artificial appendage during experiments, octopuses recoiled in defense – swimming away, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. First the scientists placed an octopus in a water tank where it could relax on a soft substrate similar to the seafloor. Then they ...

In the classic “rubber hand” illusion, a participant is tricked into experiencing a fake arm on the table in front of them as their own: their brain “feels” the tickle of a feather or other stimuli ...