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Roberta D Roberts1, Glyn W Humphreys

  • 1School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. r.roberts@bham.ac.uk

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Crossing arms impairs tactile location judgments but not those based on nonspatial features like frequency. This suggests arm posture affects spatial tactile perception, not all temporal order processing.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Human Perception
  • Somatosensation

Background:

  • Tactile temporal order judgments (TOJs) can decline when arms are crossed.
  • Previous studies focused only on location-based TOJs.
  • The impact on non-location-based TOJs remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if arm crossing affects all tactile TOJs or only spatially defined ones.
  • To differentiate the influence of posture on spatial versus nonspatial tactile TOJs.

Main Methods:

  • Participants judged the temporal order of tactile stimuli presented to each hand.
  • Stimuli were identified by spatial (location) or nonspatial (frequency, duration) attributes.
  • Arm posture (crossed vs. uncrossed) was manipulated.

Main Results:

  • Spatial tactile TOJs were significantly impaired with crossed arms compared to uncrossed arms.
  • No significant effect of arm posture was observed for nonspatial tactile TOJs.
  • Posture effects were modulated by task demands, even in go/no-go responses.

Conclusions:

  • Arm crossing specifically impairs tactile localization, affecting spatial TOJs.
  • Tactile localization is not essential for temporal order judgments when nonspatial attributes are available.