Can vision of the body ameliorate impaired somatosensory function?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1101-1107

  Serino, Andrea ^a,b   Farnè, Alessandro ^a,b   Rinaldesi, Maria Luisa ^c   Haggard, Patrick ^d,e   Làdavas, Elisabetta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Centro Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive   (Italy)

^c Istituto di Riabilitazione Santo Stefano   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body representation; Brain plasticity; Multisensory perception; Somatosensory deficits

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; MALE; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDER; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VISION;

ADULT; ARM; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; STEREOGNOSIS; TOUCH; VISION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33845743365     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.09.013     Document Type: Article

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