By around age 10, individuals start to report feeling the touch of a stick stroking a virtual body, denoting a growing integration of sensations with the experience of body ownership, Cowie’s team finds. During virtual reality trials, only adults perceived their actual bodies as physically moving through space toward virtual bodies receiving synchronized touches. On questionnaires administered after each virtual trial, the 31 adult participants reported a strong tendency to experience a virtual body as their own when strokes were delivered in synchrony, but not when strokes were mistimed.