Newport Roger, Auty Kelly, Carey Mark, Greenfield Katie, Howard Ellen M, Ratcliffe Natasha, Thair Hayley, Themelis Kristy
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK.
British Psychological Society, St Andrews House, Leicester, UK.
Iperception. 2015 Oct 19;6(5):2041669515599310. doi: 10.1177/2041669515599310. eCollection 2015 Oct.
If British teenage boy asks you to pull his finger, it is usually an indication that he simultaneously wishes to break wind. If you were to tell him that you could pull his finger and stretch it to twice its length, you might expect a similarly irreverent response yet when we pulled the fingers of nearly 600 children and adolescents, 93% reported the illusion of stretching. Grossly distorted body representations need not be the preserve of clinical disorders and can reliably be induced in healthy participants across all ages.
如果一个英国青少年男孩让你拉他的手指,通常这表明他同时想要放屁。如果你告诉他你可以拉他的手指并将其拉长到原来的两倍,你可能会得到类似无礼的回应。然而,当我们拉了近600名儿童和青少年的手指时,93%的人报告有手指被拉长的错觉。严重扭曲的身体表象并非临床疾病所特有,在所有年龄段的健康参与者中都能可靠地诱发出来。