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Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

An illusory phenomenon in which the human touch system is fooled into sensing tactile stimulation on the body surface when, in fact, there is no physical stimulation present.  2, fiche 1, Anglais, - cutaneous%20rabbit

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

The subject's arm rests cushioned on a table, and mechanical tappers are placed at two or three locations along the arm, up to a foot apart. A rhythmic series of taps is delivered... in intervals between 50 and 200 milliseconds... The subject feels the taps travelling in regular sequence over equidistant points up the arm, as if a little animal were hopping along it.  1, fiche 1, Anglais, - cutaneous%20rabbit

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