Consciousness and body image: Lessons from phantom limbs, Capgras syndrome and pain asymbolia

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1377, 1998, Pages 1851-1859

  Ramachandran, V S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body image; Phantom limb; Plasticity; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032578947     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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