Mirror touch synesthates compared with individuals by social cognition tests
| dc.contributor.author | Eljazwi, Mohamed | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-28T10:31:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-28T10:31:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-02-27 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://repository.limu.edu.ly/handle/123456789/2029 | |
| dc.description | Synesthesia is a group of rare neurologic phenomenon in which a single sense is perceived as if one or more sensations are sensed. Synesthesia can be divided into two major categories; First of all there is projective synesthesia in which the synesthete can sees, hears feels, smells or tastes the second sensation which is triggered by the initial stimulus. An example of this is a synesthete smelling apples whenever they hear a piano playing a certain note. The smell of the grapes is as real for the synesthete as the sound they are hearing. (1) The second major category is associative synesthesia. Synesthetes who are categorized in this group feel the connection between a stimulus and a sense by which it is not normally perceived. In the above example, while a synesthete with associative synesthesia will not smell grapes, they will feel a strong association between piano music and the smell of grapes. There is to our knowledge, some gray area between these two types of synesthesia, as there are synesthetes who describe their experiences in both a projected and associative manner, with the types occurring both in independently and in a mixed or concurrent fashion. (1) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Individuals with mirror touch synaesthesia (MTS) phenomenon experience touch on their own body whilst observing others being touched. A recent study proposes that such rare experiences could be linked to dysfunction in self-other representations. Here we tested individuals with MTS on a number of social cognition tests and Found that comparing it to non-synaesthete controls, the MTS group showed dysfunction in imitation-inhibition but not in visual perspective taking or theory of mind. Even though all of these socio-cognitive abilities depend on the control of self other representations, they differ as to whether the self, or other, should enhance or inhibit the representation. In the visual perspective taking and in the theory of mind tasks the representation of the other should be enhanced and the self-representation should be inhibited, whereas the opposite is true for the imitation-inhibition task where they show self enhancement and other inhibition . The findings of this study suggest that MTS is associated with a specific deficit in inhibiting representation of other individuals and shed light on the functioning of the processes underlying typical social cognition | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | faculty of Basic Medical Science - Libyan International Medical University | en_US |
| dc.rights | Attribution 3.0 United States | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ | * |
| dc.title | Mirror touch synesthates compared with individuals by social cognition tests | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |
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