Advanced search
Publication Cover
Cognitive Neuroscience
Current Debates, Research & Reports
Volume 2, 2011 - Issue 3-4: The Body in the Brain: Body Representations, Processes and Neural Mechanisms
Submit an article Journal homepage
401
Views
19
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

The influence of body-ownership cues on tactile sensitivity

Regine Zopf Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Institute of Human Cognition and Brain Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Justin A. Harris School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
&
Mark A. Williams Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Institute of Human Cognition and Brain Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Pages 147-154 | Published online: 03 Jun 2011

REFERENCES

  • Botvinick , M. and Cohen , J. 1998 . Rubber hands ‘feel’ touch that eyes see . Nature , 391 ( 6669 ) : 756
  • Brainard , D. H. 1997 . The Psychophysics Toolbox . Spatial Vision , 10 ( 4 ) : 433 – 436 .
  • Cardini , F. , Longo , M. R. and Haggard , P. in press . Vision of the body modulates somatosensory intracortical inhibition . Cerebral Cortex ,
  • Cavanaugh , J. R. , Bair , W. and Movshon , J. A. 2002 . Nature and interaction of signals from the receptive field center and surround in macaque V1 neurons . Journal of Neurophysiology , 88 ( 5 ) : 2530 – 2546 .
  • Ehrsson , H. H. , Holmes , N. P. and Passingham , R. E. 2005 . Touching a rubber hand: Feeling of body ownership is associated with activity in multisensory brain areas . Journal of Neuroscience , 25 ( 45 ) : 10564 – 10573 .
  • Ehrsson , H. H. , Spence , C. and Passingham , R. E. 2004 . That's my hand! Activity in premotor cortex reflects feeling of ownership of a limb . Science , 305 ( 5685 ) : 875 – 877 .
  • Haggard , P. 2006 . Just seeing you makes me feel better: Interpersonal enhancement of touch . Social Neuroscience , 1 ( 2 ) : 104 – 110 .
  • Haggard , P. , Christakou , A. and Serino , A. 2007 . Viewing the body modulates tactile receptive fields . Experimental Brain Research , 180 ( 1 ) : 187 – 193 .
  • Harris , J. A. , Arabzadeh , E. , Moore , C. A. and Clifford , C. W. 2007 . Noninformative vision causes adaptive changes in tactile sensitivity . Journal of Neuroscience , 27 ( 27 ) : 7136 – 7140 .
  • Holmes , N. P. 2009 . Inverse effectiveness, multisensory integration, and the bodily self: Some statistical considerations . Consciousness and Cognition , 18 ( 3 ) : 762 – 765 .
  • Kennett , S. , Taylor-Clarke , M. and Haggard , P. 2001 . Noninformative vision improves the spatial resolution of touch in humans . Current Biology , 11 ( 15 ) : 1188 – 1191 .
  • Keysers , C. , Wicker , B. , Gazzola , V. , Anton , J. L. , Fogassi , L. and Gallese , V. 2004 . A touching sight: SII/PV activation during the observation and experience of touch . Neuron , 42 ( 2 ) : 335 – 346 .
  • Kontsevich , L. L. and Tyler , C. W. 1999 . Bayesian adaptive estimation of psychometric slope and threshold . Vision Research , 39 ( 16 ) : 2729 – 2737 .
  • Longo , M. R. , Betti , V. , Aglioti , S. M. and Haggard , P. 2009 . Visually induced analgesia: Seeing the body reduces pain . Journal of Neuroscience , 29 ( 39 ) : 12125 – 12130 .
  • Longo , M. R. , Cardozo , S. and Haggard , P. 2008 . Visual enhancement of touch and the bodily self . Consciousness and Cognition , 17 ( 4 ) : 1181 – 1191 .
  • Longo , M. R. , Schuur , F. , Kammers , M. P. , Tsakiris , M. and Haggard , P. 2008 . What is embodiment? A psychometric approach . Cognition , 107 ( 3 ) : 978 – 998 .
  • Mirams , L. , Poliakoff , E. , Brown , R. J. and Lloyd , D. M. 2010 . Vision of the body increases interference on the somatic signal detection task . Experimental Brain Research , 202 ( 4 ) : 787 – 794 .
  • Myers , A. and Sowden , P. T. 2008 . Your hand or mine? The extrastriate body area . NeuroImage , 42 ( 4 ) : 1669 – 1677 .
  • Pelli , D. G. 1997 . The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: Transforming numbers into movies . Spatial Vision , 10 ( 4 ) : 437 – 442 .
  • Saxe , R. , Jamal , N. and Powell , L. 2006 . My body or yours? The effect of visual perspective on cortical body representations . Cerebral Cortex , 16 ( 2 ) : 178 – 182 .
  • Schaefer , M. , Heinze , H. J. and Rotte , M. 2005 . Viewing touch improves tactile sensory threshold . Neuroreport , 16 ( 4 ) : 367 – 370 .
  • Serino , A. , Pizzoferrato , F. and Ladavas , E. 2008 . Viewing a face (especially one's own face) being touched enhances tactile perception on the face . Psychological Science , 19 ( 5 ) : 434 – 438 .
  • Tsakiris , M. , Hesse , M. D. , Boy , C. , Haggard , P. and Fink , G. R. 2007 . Neural signatures of body ownership: A sensory network for bodily self-consciousness . Cerebral Cortex , 17 ( 10 ) : 2235 – 2244 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.