ArticleeLife2020
External location of touch is constructed post-hoc based on limb choice.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Crossing effects in the tactile temporal order judgment task: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Space Impacts Temporal Processing via a Visual-Dependent Spatially Organized Neural Architecture.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Vision drives the neural construction of a two-stage hierarchy of spatial processing in infancy.iScience · 2025Article
- Contribution of external reference frame to tactile localization.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Dynamic spatial coding in parietal cortex mediates tactile-motor transformation.Nature communications · 2023Article
- The hands' default location guides tactile spatial selectivity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- The cost of aiming for the best answers: Inconsistent perception.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2023Review
- Do motor plans affect sensorimotor state estimates during temporal decision-making with crossed vs. uncrossed hands? Failure to replicate the dynamic crossed-hand effect.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- A neural surveyor to map touch on the body.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Repetition effects in action planning reflect effector- but not hemisphere-specific coding.Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Article
- Multisensory spatial perception in visually impaired infants.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- Haptic awareness changes when lying down.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- What Underlies a Greater Reversal in Tactile Temporal Order Judgment When the Hands Are Crossed? A Structural MRI Study.Cerebral cortex communications · 2021Article
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Abstract
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.
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