The marble hand ∞
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Todd Hargrove of BetterMovement.org has written several posts about sensory illusions and distortions, as they relate to pain. Here’s the latest:
The marble hand illusion study is evidence that the list of inputs the brain uses to form an image of the body is indeed endless. Apparently, the brain even considers what a hand sounds like in determining how it should feel.
Really a delightfully strange illusion.