Morphing the body: Illusory feeling of an elongated arm affects somatosensory homunculus

NeuroImage

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 700-705

  Schaefer, Michael ^a   Flor, Herta ^b   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^a   Rotte, Michael ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body image; Cross modal; Illusions; Magnetoencephalography; Multisensory; Somatosensory cortex; Touch; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ADULT; ARM; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34250207314     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.03.046     Document Type: Article

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