A New Illusion at Your Elbow. (February 2015)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- A New Illusion at Your Elbow. (February 2015)
- Main Title:
- A New Illusion at Your Elbow
- Authors:
- Brugger, Peter
Meier, Rebekka - Abstract:
- On experiencing distal-proximal tactile motion on the volar side of the forearm starting at the wrist, subjects significantly anticipate touch of the elbow crook. This illusion, popular as a children's game, was quantified in ninety participants (forty-seven women) on both arms. As a top-down explanation of the illusion, we discuss a model of Bayesian inferences. As a bottom-up contribution, we consider afterdischarges of cortical neurons, which receive input from skin mechanoreceptors specifically driven by slow-motion tactile stimuli. Like previously described illusions, the elbow crook illusion is larger on the nondominant arm. Women showed a smaller illusion than men, giving testimony to their reportedly superior cutaneous sensitivity.
- Is Part Of:
- Perception. Volume 44:Number 2(2015)
- Journal:
- Perception
- Issue:
- Volume 44:Number 2(2015)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 44, Issue 2 (2015)
- Year:
- 2015
- Volume:
- 44
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2015-0044-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 219
- Page End:
- 221
- Publication Date:
- 2015-02
- Subjects:
- cutaneous illusion -- neurophysiology -- children's game
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153.705 - Journal URLs:
- http://pec.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.pion.co.uk/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1068/p7910 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0301-0066
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- Legaldeposit
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