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| Title |
Mysterious form of referred sensation in man.
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| Published in |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, October 1977
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| DOI | 10.1073/pnas.74.10.4702 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
C P Richter |
| Abstract |
A phenomenon is described in which scratching a small excrescence on the skin on one part of the body is referred to a distant point as a "prick" or a "tingle". "Referral" points are elicited mainly by absent-minded scratching of the skin when attention is not focused on the local sensation produced by the scratch. Location of "referral" points seems to follow definite patterns: in all instances, "referral" points occurred on the same side of the body as the "stimulus" point; and each "referral" point was rostral to its "stimulus" point; and each "stimulus" point was associated with only one "referral" point. "Stimulus" and "referral" points seem to have a fixed relationship. Pathways from a "stimulus" point to a "referral" point are not known at present. Although parallels can be drawn between this phenomenon and Bender's "double simultaneous stimulation" phenomenon, both remain mysteries. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 9 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| China | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 8 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Lecturer | 2 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 22% |
| Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 1 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 1 | 11% |
| Researcher | 1 | 11% |
| Other | 2 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 44% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 11% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 11% |
| Psychology | 1 | 11% |
| Other | 1 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 December 2009.
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