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The phantom head.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  21692426     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
A student volunteer was asked to stand just behind a mannequin so that the student was looking at the back of the mannequin's plastic head. The experimenter stood off to one side and used her two hands to stroke and tap the back of the student's head in perfect synchrony with the back of the mannequin's head. After 1-2 min the majority of naive subjects tested began experiencing the sensations as emerging from the mannequin's head rather than from their own, demonstrating a novel 'phantom-head' illusion. The fact that sensory referral here occurs to a part of the body that is not normally visually accessible challenges the leading Hebbian explanation of the well-studied rubber-hand illusion.
Authors:
Vilayanur S Ramachandran; Beatrix Krause; Laura K Case
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Perception     Volume:  40     ISSN:  0301-0066     ISO Abbreviation:  Perception     Publication Date:  2011  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-06-22     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0372307     Medline TA:  Perception     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  367-70     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California at San Diego, McGill Hall, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109, USA. vramacha@ucsd.edu
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