Where is a nose with respect to a foot? The left posterior parietal cortex processes spatial relationships among body parts

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2879-2890

  Corradi Dell'Acqua, Corrado ^a,b   Hesse, Maike D ^b,c,d   Rumiati, Raffaella I ^a   Fink, Gereon R ^b,d,e  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^d Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autotopagnosia; Body schema; Body structural description; Extrastriate body area; Intraparietal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOTOPAGNOSIA; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FOOT; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NOSE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTURE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56449131032     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn046     Document Type: Article

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