Visual enhancement of touch and the bodily self

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1181-1191

  Longo, Matthew R ^a,b   Cardozo, Sean ^b   Haggard, Patrick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bodily self; Inverse efficiency; Multisensory; Rubber hand illusion; Touch; Visual enhancement of touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55749114565     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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