About the Authors

Sabine U. König

sabkoeni@uos.de

Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Frank Schumann

Affiliations Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Johannes Keyser

Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Caspar Goeke

Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Carina Krause

Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Susan Wache

Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Aleksey Lytochkin

Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Manuel Ebert

Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Vincent Brunsch

Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Basil Wahn

Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Kai Kaspar

Affiliations Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany, Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Saskia K. Nagel

Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Tobias Meilinger

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

Heinrich Bülthoff

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

Thomas Wolbers

Affiliation Aging & Cognition Research Group, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Magdeburg, Germany

Christian Büchel

Affiliation NeuroImage Nord, Department of Systems Neuroscience, Hamburg University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Peter König

Affiliations Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany, Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The feelSpace company (http://www.feelspace.de/) is a spin-off enterprise of the University Osnabrück founded in November 2015 after completion of the data acquisition of the present study. Two authors, Susan Wache and Peter König, are co-founders of the company and CMO and senior research adviser respectively. The belt utilized in the study was not developed, nor is it marketed by the feelSpace company. Both versions of the piezo belt, used in the study, were designed as outlined in the author contributions by Frank Schumann, Johannes Keyser, Caspar Goeke, and Carina Krause and are not related to the product portfolio of the company.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PK SKN FS SUK. Data curation: SUK JK CG VB BW KK. Formal analysis: SUK JK CG CK SW AL ME VB BW KK PK. Funding acquisition: PK. Investigation: SUK JK CG CK SW AL ME VB. Methodology: SUK FS JK CK KK SKN TM HB TW CB PK. Project administration: SUK FS PK. Resources: TM HB TW CB PK. Software: FS JK CG ME. Supervision: KK TM HB TW CB PK. Validation: SUK CG VB BW KK PK. Visualization: ME. Writing – original draft: SUK FS CK SW AL BW PK. Writing – review & editing: SUK FS ME BW KK SKN TM HB TW CB PK.