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The co-occurrence of mirror-touch with other types of synaesthesia
People with mirror-touch synaesthesia report tactile experiences on their body when seeing other people touched. Although this has been referred to as a type of synaesthesia, it is unknown whether it co-occurs with more commonly accepted variants of synaesthesia (e.g. grapheme-colour). If it did, then this would imply a common or partly shared causal mechanism. To this end, a sample of verified grapheme-colour synaesthetes (N=80) were given a recently developed online diagnostic measure of mirror-touch. The prevalence in this group (~20%) was around 10 times higher than the general population. Moreover, performance on this measure was significantly related to the self-report of mirror-touch given, on average, three years earlier.
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PerceptionISSN
0301-0066Publisher
PerceptionExternal DOI
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11Volume
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1146-1152Department affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
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2019-09-18First Open Access (FOA) Date
2019-09-18First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-09-02Usage metrics
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