Video ergo sum: Manipulating bodily self-consciousness

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5841, 2007, Pages 1096-1099

  Lenggenhager, Bigna ^a   Tadi, Tej ^a   Metzinger, Thomas ^b,c   Blanke, Olaf ^a,d  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

^d University Hospital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; NEUROLOGY; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TOUCH;

EID: 34548245554     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1143439     Document Type: Article

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