What is the position of an arm relative to the body? Neural correlates of body schema and body structural description

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4162-4171

  Acqua, Corrado Corradi Dell' ^a,b   Tomasino, Barbara ^a,c   Fink, Gereon R ^a,d  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c Istituto di Ricovero e Cura A Carattere Scientifico Eugenio Medea   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; KINESTHESIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; ROTATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS; SUBICULUM; ARM; BLOOD; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARM; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249091587     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4861-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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