TY - JOUR
T1 - The no-touch rubber hand paradigm and mirror-touch sensation
T2 - Support for the self-other theory of mirror-touch synesthesia
AU - White, Rebekah C.
AU - Aimola Davies, Anne M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2015/7/3
Y1 - 2015/7/3
N2 - Abstract: We thoroughly enjoyed Ward and Banissy’s Discussion Paper on mirror-touch synesthesia. The authors contrast two theories for explaining this phenomenon—the Threshold Theory and their Self-Other Theory. Ward and Banissy note that the Self-Other Theory garners support from studies that have tested individuals with mirror-touch synesthesia using the rubber hand paradigm. In this Commentary, we provide further support for the Self-Other Theory by drawing on findings from control participants without mirror-touch synesthesia tested with two different no-touch rubber hand paradigms—one paradigm makes it easier while the other makes it more difficult to make the self-other distinction.
AB - Abstract: We thoroughly enjoyed Ward and Banissy’s Discussion Paper on mirror-touch synesthesia. The authors contrast two theories for explaining this phenomenon—the Threshold Theory and their Self-Other Theory. Ward and Banissy note that the Self-Other Theory garners support from studies that have tested individuals with mirror-touch synesthesia using the rubber hand paradigm. In this Commentary, we provide further support for the Self-Other Theory by drawing on findings from control participants without mirror-touch synesthesia tested with two different no-touch rubber hand paradigms—one paradigm makes it easier while the other makes it more difficult to make the self-other distinction.
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U2 - 10.1080/17588928.2015.1057483
DO - 10.1080/17588928.2015.1057483
M3 - Comment/debate
SN - 1758-8928
VL - 6
SP - 146
EP - 147
JO - Cognitive Neuroscience
JF - Cognitive Neuroscience
IS - 2-3
ER -