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The no-touch rubber hand paradigm and mirror-touch sensation: Support for the self-other theory of mirror-touch
Rebekah C White1, Anne M Aimola Davies
1a Department of Experimental Psychology , University of Oxford , Oxford , United Kingdom.
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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