Reversal of subjective temporal order due to arm crossing

摘要: How does the brain order successive events? Here we studied whether temporal of two stimuli delivered in rapid succession, one to each hand, is determined before or after are localized space. When their arms were crossed, subjects could accurately report order, even when interval between was as short 70 ms. In most trials, also judge but only if given adequate time (>1 s). At moderately intervals (<300 ms), crossing caused misreporting (that is, inverting) order. Thus, at these intervals, determining factor spatial location hands. We suggest that it not until locations hands taken into account cutaneous signals from respective ordered time.