Why can't you tickle yourself?

By Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, D. M. Wolpert, ChrisD . Frith. 2000

865 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Neuroscience

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Floris P. de Lange
2. Micha Heilbron
3. Pierre Jacob
4. Sterling C. Johnson
5. Peter Kok
6. Srikantan S. Nagarajan
7. John F. Houde
8. Elisabeth Pacherie

In Neurology

1. Pierre Jacob
2. Peter Kok
3. Srikantan S. Nagarajan
4. John F. Houde
5. Elisabeth Pacherie
6. Département d'Etudes Cognitives
7. Floris P. de Lange
8. Dinggang Shen

In Psychiatry and Mental health

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2. John F. Houde
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4. Matthew D. Lieberman
5. Peter Fransson
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In Neuroscience

1. Micha Heilbron
2. Pierre Jacob
3. Peter Kok
4. Srikantan S. Nagarajan
5. John F. Houde
6. Elisabeth Pacherie
7. Département d'Etudes Cognitives
8. Floris P. de Lange

Citations in the corpus

• Neural correlates of self-reflection. (2002, background): “Studies using cognitive activation paradigms report activations to self-monitoring of current emotional or somatic states (McGuire et al., 1996; Lane et al., 1997; Blakemore et al., 2000; Gusnard et al., 2001).”
• elife.elifesciences.org RESEARCH ARTICLE Convergence of pontine and (2013, neutral): “Theory and perturbation studies suggest somatic forward models reside in the cerebellum (Miall et al., 1993, 2007; Miall, 1998; Wolpert et al., 1998; Blakemore et al., 2000; Pasalar et al., 2006; Ebner and Pasalar, 2008; Ito, 2008; Lesage et al., 2012).”
• Violation of Expectation: Neural Correlates Reflect Bases of Prediction (2008, neutral): “This framework has previously been suggested for the motor domain in which an internal (forward) model is used to predict the sensory consequences of movements on the basis of the motor command (Blakemore, Wolpert, & Frith, 2000).”
• What Do Mirror Neurons Contribute to Human Social Cognition (2008, methodology): “41 This is why one can ’ t tickle oneself, cf. Blakemore et al. , 2000 .”
• Speech Production as State Feedback Control (2011, background): “Non-speech evidence for this is seen when a robot creates delay between the tickle action subjects produce and when they feel it on their own hand (Blakemore et al., 1998, 1999, 2000).”
• The Sense of Control and the Sense of Agency (2007, background): “Numerous studies have shown that the perceptual consequences of self-generated actions are attenuated (Blakemore et al., 1998; 1999, 2000, 2002; Claxton, 1975; Collins et al., 1998).”