Cutaneous rabbit illusion

English

Noun

cutaneous rabbit illusion (plural cutaneous rabbit illusions)

1. A tactile illusion where tapping separate regions of a person's skin in rapid succession (e.g. the elbow and the forearm) gives the impression of sequential taps "hopping" from one point to the next, even though the intermediate points were never touched.

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See Also

• Wikipedia's Entry for "Cutaneous rabbit illusion"
• PubMed
• The Cutaneous Rabbit Effect: Phenomenology and saltation by Jack Brooks and Jörg Trojan (2017)
• Wiktionary's Entry for "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cutaneous_rabbit_illusion"

Synonyms

• cutaneous rabbit effect
• cutaneous saltation