Give It a Tug and Feel It Grow: Extending Body Perception Through the Universal Nature of Illusory Finger Stretching

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 n...

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Autores principales: Newport, Roger, Auty, Kelly, Carey, Mark, Greenfield, Katie, Howard, Ellen M., Ratcliffe, Natasha, Thair, Hayley, Themelis, Kristy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2015
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Short and Sweet
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5016819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27648214
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669515599310
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author Newport, Roger
Auty, Kelly
Carey, Mark
Greenfield, Katie
Howard, Ellen M.
Ratcliffe, Natasha
Thair, Hayley
Themelis, Kristy
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-50168192016-09-19 Give It a Tug and Feel It Grow: Extending Body Perception Through the Universal Nature of Illusory Finger Stretching Newport, Roger Auty, Kelly Carey, Mark Greenfield, Katie Howard, Ellen M. Ratcliffe, Natasha Thair, Hayley Themelis, Kristy Iperception Short and Sweet 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. SAGE Publications 2015-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5016819/ /pubmed/27648214 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669515599310 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Newport, Roger
Auty, Kelly
Carey, Mark
Greenfield, Katie
Howard, Ellen M.
Ratcliffe, Natasha
Thair, Hayley
Themelis, Kristy
Give It a Tug and Feel It Grow: Extending Body Perception Through the Universal Nature of Illusory Finger Stretching
title Give It a Tug and Feel It Grow: Extending Body Perception Through the Universal Nature of Illusory Finger Stretching
title_full Give It a Tug and Feel It Grow: Extending Body Perception Through the Universal Nature of Illusory Finger Stretching
title_fullStr Give It a Tug and Feel It Grow: Extending Body Perception Through the Universal Nature of Illusory Finger Stretching
title_full_unstemmed Give It a Tug and Feel It Grow: Extending Body Perception Through the Universal Nature of Illusory Finger Stretching
title_short Give It a Tug and Feel It Grow: Extending Body Perception Through the Universal Nature of Illusory Finger Stretching
title_sort give it a tug and feel it grow: extending body perception through the universal nature of illusory finger stretching
topic Short and Sweet
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5016819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27648214
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669515599310
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