The Sense of touch: Embodied simulation in a visuotactile mirroring mechanism for observed animate or inanimate touch

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1611-1623

  Ebisch, Sjoerd J H ^a   Perrucci, Mauro G ^a   Ferretti, Antonio ^a   Del Gratta, Cosimo ^a   Romani, Gian Luca ^a   Gallese, Vittorio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE MEMORY; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTENTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 50649117075     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20111     Document Type: Article

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