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| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 147 - 153 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Consciousness and Cognition |
| Volume | 36 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
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Attenuated self-tickle sensation even under trajectory perturbation. / Van Doorn, George Haborym; Paton, Bryan; Howell, Jacqui Lee; Hohwy, Jakob.
In: Consciousness and Cognition, Vol. 36, 2015, p. 147 - 153.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
TY - JOUR
T1 - Attenuated self-tickle sensation even under trajectory perturbation
AU - Van Doorn, George Haborym
AU - Paton, Bryan
AU - Howell, Jacqui Lee
AU - Hohwy, Jakob
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The efference copy account of the tickle effect (i.e., our inability to tickle ourselves) predicts no tickle effect (i.e., an ability to tickle ourselves) when the trajectory of a tactile stimulus is perturbed relative to the associated movement, and there is evidence in support of this. The active inference account, however, predicts the tickle effect should survive trajectory perturbation. We test these accounts of the tickle effect under the hypothesis that previous findings are due to attentional modulation, and that the tickle effect will be found in a paradigm with no conscious attention directed to the trajectory perturbation. We thus expected to find support for active inference. Our first experiment confirms this hypothesis, while our second seeks to explain previous findings in terms of the modulation of the tickle sensation when there is awareness of, and different degrees of attention to, the spatial tactile and kinesthetic trajectories. (c) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
AB - The efference copy account of the tickle effect (i.e., our inability to tickle ourselves) predicts no tickle effect (i.e., an ability to tickle ourselves) when the trajectory of a tactile stimulus is perturbed relative to the associated movement, and there is evidence in support of this. The active inference account, however, predicts the tickle effect should survive trajectory perturbation. We test these accounts of the tickle effect under the hypothesis that previous findings are due to attentional modulation, and that the tickle effect will be found in a paradigm with no conscious attention directed to the trajectory perturbation. We thus expected to find support for active inference. Our first experiment confirms this hypothesis, while our second seeks to explain previous findings in terms of the modulation of the tickle sensation when there is awareness of, and different degrees of attention to, the spatial tactile and kinesthetic trajectories. (c) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810015300039
U2 - 10.1016/j.concog.2015.06.016
DO - 10.1016/j.concog.2015.06.016
M3 - Article
VL - 36
SP - 147
EP - 153
JO - Consciousness and Cognition
JF - Consciousness and Cognition
SN - 1053-8100
ER -