You are more likely to feel tickled by a good friend's touch than when the very same touch is initiated by someone you don't know.This best illustrates that our experience of touch is influenced by

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This best illustrates top-down processing, which is the influence of higher-level mental processes, such as expectations and past experiences, on our perception of sensory information. In this case, our prior relationship with the person touching us (i.e. a good friend vs a stranger) influences how we perceive the touch. Phantom limb sensations are not relevant to this scenario, nor is sensory adaptation or synesthesia.

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