Feeling numb: Temperature, but not thermal pain, modulates feeling of body ownership

▸ Previous studies showed a reduction in the temperature of a disowned body part. ▸ We show an opposite causal relationship between temperature and body ownership. ▸ External hand cooling facilitates disownership while warming impedes disownership. ▸ The painful extremes of these temperatures do not change feeling of body ownership. ▸ Temperature modifies while thermal pain bypasses multisensory embodiment mechanisms.