Somatosensory processing and body representation

Cortex

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1078-1084

  Azañón, Elena ^a   Haggard, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body representation; Multisensory integration; Somatosensory system; Tactile remapping; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY REGIONS; COGNITION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PROPRIOCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION;

BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 68049147655     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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