Contrary to previous theories which used multiple sensory inputs including touch and vision, these results demonstrate that messages coming from muscle receptors are enough to change the internal body representation. (sciencedaily.com)
They believe this illusion is strong enough to overcome the minor discrepancy of the position of your real hand signaled by your body's joint and muscle receptors versus the site of the plastic hand registered by your eyes. (scientificamerican.com)
Prior research in the 1980s and 1990s focused on how the rabies virus binds to and interacts with specific muscle receptors that receive signals from nerves to control muscle contraction. (sciencedaily.com)