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Your Skin Can Feel a Tap That Never Happened
Your Skin Can Feel a Tap That Never HappenedRapid taps at the wrist and near the elbow can make people feel light touches hop along forearm skin that was never stimulated. fMRI work found primary somatosensory cortex lighting up at the filled-in map site; a Bayesian speed-prior model accounts for perceptual length contraction and time dilation that yield the rabbit, and a simple visual-flash te…
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