Seeing the hand boosts feeling on the cheek

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 602-609

  Serino, Andrea ^a,b   Padiglioni, Sonia ^b   Haggard, Patrick ^c,d   Làdavas, Elisabetta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Polo Scientifico Didattico di Cesena   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body representation; Multisensory integration; Somatosensory cortex; Touch enhancement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEEK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASTE ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 62649167364     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.03.008     Document Type: Article

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