Effects of different viewing perspectives on somatosensory activations during observation of touch

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2722-2730

  Schaefer, Michael ^a,b   Xu, Benjamin ^a   Flor, Herta ^c   Cohen, Leonardo G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Mirror neuron system; Perspective; Somatosensory cortex; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EGO; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; OBSERVATION; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 69249147388     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20701     Document Type: Article

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