A critical review of congenital phantom limb cases and a developmental theory for the basis of body image

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 310-322

  Price, Elfed Huw ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aplasic; Body image; Body schema; Congenital; Mirror neurons; Phantom limb

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; APLASIA; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONGENITAL DISORDER; EXPERIENCE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORY STIMULATION;

BODY IMAGE; HUMANS; PHANTOM LIMB; SELF CONCEPT; SENSATION;

EID: 33646550848     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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