title: Give It a Tug and Feel It Grow: Extending Body Perception Through the Universal Nature of Illusory Finger Stretching.
abstract: If British teenage boy asks you to pull his finger, it is usually an indication that he simultaneously wishes to break wind. If you were to tell him that you could pull his finger and stretch it to twice its length, you might expect a similarly irreverent response yet when we pulled the fingers of nearly 600 children and adolescents, 93% reported the illusion of stretching. Grossly distorted body representations need not be the preserve of clinical disorders and can reliably be induced in healthy participants across all ages.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Newport
authors.affiliation: British Psychological Society, St Andrews House, Leicester, UK.
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Auty
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carey
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Katie
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Greenfield
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Ellen M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Howard
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Natasha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ratcliffe
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Hayley
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Thair
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Kristy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Themelis
keywords: MIRAGE; children; finger stretching; multisensory illusion; not rubber hand illusion