{"title":"Normal or tingly? A story about hands and feet.","authors":"Myrto Efstathiou, Louise S Delicato, Anna Sedda","doi":"10.1080/08990220.2021.1993440","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Spontaneous sensations (SPS) are sensations that are felt in the body in the absence of external stimulation. The literature on SPS has used explicit measures, such as questionnaires to explore SPS, while no studies to date have examined SPS on an implicit level. This study was conducted to collect representative stimuli that can be used to build such a task, for example, an Implicit Association Test.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An online survey was completed by 18 participants to identify the most frequent words used to describe our limbs in the presence or absence of SPS.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Individuals who perceive and those who do not perceive SPS in their limbs describe their limbs as <i>normal,</i> while the most frequently described SPS were <i>itching</i> and <i>tingling</i>.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Thus, we use the same words/adjectives to describe how we perceive our limbs. However, the way we experience SPS varies as we experience more SPS in hands than feet.</p>","PeriodicalId":49498,"journal":{"name":"Somatosensory and Motor Research","volume":"39 1","pages":"46-54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Somatosensory and Motor Research","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08990220.2021.1993440","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2021/10/27 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"NEUROSCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Aims: Spontaneous sensations (SPS) are sensations that are felt in the body in the absence of external stimulation. The literature on SPS has used explicit measures, such as questionnaires to explore SPS, while no studies to date have examined SPS on an implicit level. This study was conducted to collect representative stimuli that can be used to build such a task, for example, an Implicit Association Test.
Methods: An online survey was completed by 18 participants to identify the most frequent words used to describe our limbs in the presence or absence of SPS.
Results: Individuals who perceive and those who do not perceive SPS in their limbs describe their limbs as normal, while the most frequently described SPS were itching and tingling.
Conclusions: Thus, we use the same words/adjectives to describe how we perceive our limbs. However, the way we experience SPS varies as we experience more SPS in hands than feet.
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Somatosensory & Motor Research publishes original, high-quality papers that encompass the entire range of investigations related to the neural bases for somatic sensation, somatic motor function, somatic motor integration, and modeling thereof. Comprising anatomical, physiological, biochemical, pharmacological, behavioural, and psychophysical studies, Somatosensory & Motor Research covers all facets of the peripheral and central processes underlying cutaneous sensation, and includes studies relating to afferent and efferent mechanisms of deep structures (e.g., viscera, muscle). Studies of motor systems at all levels of the neuraxis are covered, but reports restricted to non-neural aspects of muscle generally would belong in other journals.
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