A task control theory of mirror-touch synesthesia
Heyes C., Catmur C.
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Abstract: Ward and Banissy’s illuminating discussion of mirror-touch synesthesia (MTS) encourages research testing two alternatives to Threshold Theory: Their own Self-Other Theory, and “Task Control Theory”. MTS may be due to abnormal mirror activity plus a domain-general, rather than a specifically social, impairment in the ability to privilege processing of task-relevant over task-irrelevant information.