TY - JOUR
T1 - “Atypical touch perception in MTS may derive from an abnormally plastic self-representation”
AU - Bufalari, Ilaria
AU - Porciello, Giuseppina
AU - Aglioti, Salvatore Maria
PY - 2015/7/3
Y1 - 2015/7/3
N2 - Abstract: Mirror Touch Synesthetes (MTSs) feel touch while they observe others being touched. According to the authors, two complementary theoretical frameworks, the Threshold Theory and the Self-Other Theory, explain Mirror Touch Synesthesia (MTS). Based on the behavioral evidence that in MTSs the mere observation of touch is sufficient to elicit self-other merging (i.e., self-representation changes), a condition that in non-MTSs just elicits self-other sharing (i.e., mirroring activity without self-other blurring), and on the rTPJ anatomical alterations in MTS, we argue that MTS may derive from an abnormally plastic self-representation and atypical multisensory integrative mechanisms.
AB - Abstract: Mirror Touch Synesthetes (MTSs) feel touch while they observe others being touched. According to the authors, two complementary theoretical frameworks, the Threshold Theory and the Self-Other Theory, explain Mirror Touch Synesthesia (MTS). Based on the behavioral evidence that in MTSs the mere observation of touch is sufficient to elicit self-other merging (i.e., self-representation changes), a condition that in non-MTSs just elicits self-other sharing (i.e., mirroring activity without self-other blurring), and on the rTPJ anatomical alterations in MTS, we argue that MTS may derive from an abnormally plastic self-representation and atypical multisensory integrative mechanisms.
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U2 - 10.1080/17588928.2015.1057486
DO - 10.1080/17588928.2015.1057486
M3 - Article
C2 - 26118308
AN - SCOPUS:84939252963
VL - 6
SP - 139
EP - 141
JO - Cognitive Neuroscience
JF - Cognitive Neuroscience
SN - 1758-8928
IS - 2-3
ER -