title: Are mirror-sensations really synesthetic?
abstract: Mirror-sensations, including touch and pain, are often referred to as synesthetic. The term can be challenged, however, because mirror-sensations lack the incongruency and saliency of synesthesia, may involve problems of perspective rather than entangled sensations, and may be easier to generate with suggestion. If mirror-sensations are truly sensations then they might be expected to act like the true sensation and mirror-pain, for example, might inhibit pain at a distance or itch in the same location. These predictions are highly testable.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology and A*STAR-NUS Clinical Imaging Research Centre , National University of Singapore , Singapore.
authors.forename: Stuart W G
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Derbyshire
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions / Q000502:physiology*; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D055698:Touch Perception / Q000502:physiology*