Fig. 3

Different degrees of continuity between the real and the virtual body affect sense of embodiment toward the virtual body. There were significant differences between conditions for all the questions of the virtual embodiment questionnaire, showing higher scores of ownership and agency in the Full Body condition compared to the Upper Limb, and Detached Hand conditions. Further, the Upper Limb condition presented significant higher scores related to ownership and agency compared to the Detached Hand condition. In the boxplots, the medians are shown as horizontal lines, and the boxes are the interquartile ranges (IQR). The whiskers are between max (min score, lower quartile − 1.5 IQR) to min (max score, upper quartile + 1.5 IQR). If there are values outside the whiskers these are conventionally called “outliers” and are shown by (∘). *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.0001.