Eye tracking reveals which smart prosthetics feel foreign to the body—independent of user feedback

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Eye tracking has proved valuable for assessing whether the user of a prosthetic arm perceives the device as a part of their body or experiences additional cognitive load in manipulating the artificial limb. In the experiments, when the test subject received feedback from the prosthesis in the form of electrical stimulation, the user was less likely to look at the limb and therefore did not concentrate their attention on the device as much.