Losing your head: Behavioral and electrophysiological effects of body inversion

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 865-874

  Minnebusch, Denise A ^a   Suchan, Boris ^a   Daum, Irene ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY BUILD; BODY INVERSION; BODY POSTURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SCALP; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66049108426     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21074     Document Type: Article

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