Surveilance Reports About Self-Touching “Most Self-Touches Are with the Nondominant Hand,” Nan Zhang, Wei Jia, Peihua Wang, Marco-Felipe King, Pak-To Chan, and Yuguo Li, Scientific Reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 1-13. (Thanks to Adrian Smith for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at The University of Hong Kong and The University of […]
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Hand cooling from illusion not linked to change in body ownership
Researchers from Utrecht University have an update on temperatures in hands that may, or may not, belong to you. Their paper, “No consistent cooling of the real hand in the rubber hand illusion,” gives an example of the importance of distinguishing body ownership: “Consider a simple task such as walking towards another person –say, this […]
“Illusory Sense of Human Touch From a Warm and Soft Artificial Hand”
This most touching study was published in 2015: “Illusory Sense of Human Touch From a Warm and Soft Artificial Hand,” John-John Cabibihan, Deepak Joshi, Yeshwin Mysore Srinivasa, Mark Aaron Chan, and Arrchana Muruganantham, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 23, no. 3, 2015, pp. 517-527. The authors, at Qatar University, Graphic Era […]
President Lukashenko and the power of his Ig Nobel Prize
The Belarus Digest reports (on April 4, 2016): “There are permanent rumours within the Belarusian establishment that the main reason for Lukashenka’s peace initiatives was the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to US president Barack Obama in October 2009. Lukashenka is rumoured to have given orders to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ‘win’ […]
