The bodily self as power for action

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 746-755

  Gallese, Vittorio ^a,b   Sinigaglia, Corrado ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action; Bodily self; Mirror neurons; Sense of agency; Sense of ownership

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PROPRIOCEPTION; SELF CONCEPT; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INFANT; MOVEMENT; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PERSONAL SPACE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 74449085346     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.038     Document Type: Article

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