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ERIC Number: EJ742393
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Jun
Pages: 16
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0096-1523
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The Cutaneous Rabbit Revisited
Flach, Rudiger; Haggard, Patrick
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v32 n3 p717-732 Jun 2006
In the cutaneous rabbit effect (CRE), a tactile event (so-called attractee tap) is mislocalized toward an adjacent attractor tap. The effect depends on the time interval between the taps. The authors delivered sequences of taps to the forearm and asked participants to report the location of one of the taps. The authors replicated the original CRE findings and observed a smaller but significant mislocalization when the attractor tap preceded the attracted tap. These results are consistent with the CRE arising from spatiotemporal interactions between the sensory codes for each individual tap. In subsequent experiments, the authors showed that the CRE was not affected by either gaze direction or concurrent auditory temporal information. The authors propose a model that explains the CRE by the spatiotemporal dynamics of an early, unimodal, sensory map.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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