Self-touch is perceived as weaker and rarely tickles compared to external touch. Using psychophysical and neuroimaging approaches, I will present evidence supporting an efference copy–based mechanism that predicts the sensory consequences of voluntary movements to attenuate self-generated tactile sensations and engages interactions between the cerebellum and somatosensory cortex.
Neurophysiological Bases of Human Movement 2025 (King’s College London, UK) (2025) Proc Physiol Soc 67, SA10
Research Symposium: Sensing the self: Psychophysics and neuroimaging of somatosensory processing in voluntary movements
Konstantina Kilteni12
1Karolinska Institutet Sweden 2Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour The Netherlands
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