Gravitational influences on reference frames for mapping somatic stimuli in brain-damaged patients

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-152

  Peru, Andrea ^a   Moro, Valentina ^a   Sattibaldi, Lorenzo ^a   Morgant, Jean Sebastien ^a   Aglioti, Salvatore M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain damaged patients; Gravity; Neglect; Somesthetic deficit; Tactile extinction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECUMBENCY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSTURE; REFERENCE VALUES; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 32344435559     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0132-9     Document Type: Article

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