Illusory reduplication of one's own body: Phenomenology and classification of autoscopic phenomena

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-38

  Brugger, Peter ^a,c   Regard, Marianne ^a   Landis, Theodor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.1080/135468097396397     Document Type: Article

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