title: The no-touch rubber hand paradigm and mirror-touch sensation: Support for the self-other theory of mirror-touch synesthesia.
abstract: We thoroughly enjoyed Ward and Banissy's Discussion Paper on mirror-touch synesthesia. The authors contrast two theories for explaining this phenomenon-the Threshold Theory and their Self-Other Theory. Ward and Banissy note that the Self-Other Theory garners support from studies that have tested individuals with mirror-touch synesthesia using the rubber hand paradigm. In this Commentary, we provide further support for the Self-Other Theory by drawing on findings from control participants without mirror-touch synesthesia tested with two different no-touch rubber hand paradigms-one paradigm makes it easier while the other makes it more difficult to make the self-other distinction.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Experimental Psychology , University of Oxford , Oxford , United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Rebekah C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: Anne M Aimola
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Davies
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions / Q000502:physiology*; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D055698:Touch Perception / Q000502:physiology*