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When we drop an object from our hands, we use internal models of both our body height and object-motion to predict when it will hit the floor. What happens if the sensory feedback finally received from the impact conflicts with this prediction? The study to which these data belongs shows that such conflict results in changes in the internal estimates of our body height: When the object people dropped takes longer than expected to hit the floor, they report feeling taller and behave as if their legs were longer. This provides the first evidence of cross-modal re-calibration of body-height representations as a function of changes in the distant environment. Crucially, the re-calibration results from a mismatch between the predicted and actual outcome of an action, the ball’s release and impact, which are causally-related but separated in space and time. These results suggest that implicit models of object-motion can interact with implicit and explicit models of one’s body height. The data in this collection are part of The Hearing Body project, a project investigating how the manipulation of action sounds may alter the mental representation of one's body and the related emotional state and body behavior. Other data collections part of The Hearing Body project have been deposited (see Related Resources). All parts 1 to 9 consist of experimental data, from different studies. Part 1, 2, 5, 7 and 9 contain subjective reports and behavioral data. Part 3 and 4 contain subjective reports, behavioral data and data on electrodermal activity changes. Part 6 contains subjective reports, behavioral data and data on muscle activity changes (EMG); Part 8 contains subjective reports, behavioral data and data on voice frequency changes.The mental representation we have of our body is essential for successful interaction with the environment. This representation is not fixed, but is continuously updated in response to the available sensory information. While previous studies have...