Crossing the hands increases illusory self-touch.

Manipulation of hand posture, such as crossing the hands, has been frequently used to study how the body and its immediately surrounding space are represented in the brain. Abundant data show that crossed arms posture impairs remapping of tactile stimuli from somatotopic to external space reference...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Polona Pozeg, Giulio Rognini, Roy Salomon, Olaf Blanke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0094008&type=printable