This paper is in three main parts. The first part describes the circumstances surrounding the founding of the ICMPC series in the late 1980s, and the first two ICMPC conferences, which were held in Kyoto and in Los Angeles. The second part describes some recent research by the author and collaborators. The first body of research concerns a new illusion, in which a spoken phrase is perceptually ...

The physical changes in adolescent girls raise concerns about body weight and shape, thus encouraging adolescents to go on a weight-control diet is necessary. This study aimed analyze the relationship between mass index, dissatisfaction, social environment unhealthy behaviors of girls. used cross-sectional design with 80 aged 16-18 years recruited as participants by purposive sampling. Data wer...

BACKGROUND The body dysmorphic disorder is prevalent in general population and in psychiatric, dermatological, and plastic-surgery patients, but there lacks a structure-validated, comprehensive self-report measure of body image concerns, which is established through both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. METHODS We have composed a 34-item matrix targeting the body image concerns a...

Feeling touch on a body part is paradigmatically considered to require stimulation of tactile afferents from the body part in question, at least in healthy non-synaesthetic individuals. In contrast to this view, we report a perceptual illusion where people experience "phantom touches" on a right rubber hand when they see it brushed simultaneously with brushes applied to their left hand. Such il...