Neurological evidence has shown that brain damages canselectively impair the ability to discriminate between objectsbelonging to others and those that we feel are our own. Despitethe ubiquity and relevance of this sense of object ownership forour life, the underlying cognitive mechanisms are still poorlyunderstood. Here we ask whether psychological ownership ofan object can be based on its incorporation in one’s body image.To explore this possibility with healthy participants, weemployed a modified version of the rubber hand illusion inwhich both the participant and the rubber hand wore a ring. Weused the self-prioritization effect in a perceptual matching taskas an indirect measure of the sense of (dis)ownership overobjects. Results indicate that undermining the bodily self hascascade effects on the representation of owned objects, at leastfor those associated with the body for a long time.

Previous studies showed that the sequential verification of different sensory modality properties for concepts (e.g.,BLENDER-loud; BANANA-yellow) incurs a processing cost, known as the modality-switch effect (Pecher et al. 2003; 2004).We assessed the influence of the mode of presentation of stimuli on the modality-switch effect in a property verification primingparadigm. Participants were required to perform a property verification task on a target sentence (e.g., “butter is yellowish”,“leaves rustle”) presented either visually or aurally after having been presented with a prime sentence (e.g., “the light is flick-ering”, “the sound is echoing”) that could either share both, one or none of the target’s mode of presentation and contentmodality. Results showed that the presentation and the content-driven effects were not cumulative. We conclude that the MSEis a two-fold effect which can occur at two different levels of information processing (i.e., perceptual and semantic).