TY  - JOUR
AB  - When humans indicate on which hand a tactile stimulus occurred, they often err when their hands are crossed. This finding seemingly supports the view that the automatically determined touch location in external space affects limb assignment: the crossed right hand is localized in left space, and this conflict presumably provokes hand assignment errors. Here, participants judged on which hand the first of two stimuli, presented during a bimanual movement, had occurred, and then indicated its external location by a reach-to-point movement. When participants incorrectly chose the hand stimulated second, they pointed to where that hand had been at the correct, first time point, though no stimulus had occurred at that location. This behavior suggests that stimulus localization depended on hand assignment, not vice versa. It is, thus, incompatible with the notion of automatic computation of external stimulus location upon occurrence. Instead, humans construct external touch location post-hoc and on demand. © 2020, Maij et al.
DA  - 2020
DO  - 10.7554/elife.57804
KW  - General Biochemistry
KW  - Genetics and Molecular Biology
KW  - General Immunology and Microbiology
KW  - General Neuroscience
KW  - General Medicine
LA  - eng
PY  - 2020
T2  - eLife
TI  - External location of touch is constructed post-hoc based on limb choice
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29460724
Y2  - 2024-11-22T06:24:12
ER  -