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This project explores why self-tickling feels less intense than external touches. By integrating motor control theory and neuroimaging, it aims to uncover how the brain distinguishes between self-generated and external sensory inputs.
Why can’t you tickle yourself?
Previous behavioural and neuroimaging evidence suggests that when we move one hand to touch the other, the resulting tactile sensation is perceived as less intense compared to identical touches of external origin.
This sensory attenuation (SA) phenomenon is hypothesized to arise because our brains use internal information about the motor command (efference copy) to predict the tactile consequences of the movement and attenuate the tactile feedback based on these pr…
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET
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