Touching a rubber hand: Feeling of body ownership is associated with activity in multisensory brain areas

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 45, 2005, Pages 10564-10573

  Ehrsson, H Henrik ^a   Holmes, Nicholas P ^b   Passingham, Richard E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body image; Cerebellum; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Posterior parietal cortex; Premotor cortex; Rubber hand illusion; Self recognition

Indexed keywords

RUBBER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBBER HAND ILLUSION; SELF CONCEPT; SENSORY NERVE; TOUCH; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; OXYGEN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27744533558     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0800-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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