Touch and the body

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 224-236

  Serino, Andrea ^a   Haggard, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body representation; Cortical plasticity; Somatosensory system

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DORSAL ROOT; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB DISEASE; LIMB MOVEMENT; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SKIN NERVE; SKIN SENSATION; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SKIN STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; TRANSPLANTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BODY IMAGE; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 70350568229     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.04.004     Document Type: Review

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