Neural bases of peri-hand space plasticity through tool-use: Insights from a combined computational-experimental approach

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 812-830

  Magosso, Elisa ^a   Ursino, Mauro ^a   di Pellegrino, Giuseppe ^a,b   Làdavas, Elisabetta ^a,b   Serino, Andrea ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Centro Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Body representation; Cross modal extinction; Hebbian plasticity; Multisensory integration; Neural network modelling; Sense of body; Space representation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOOL USE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED; BRAIN; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERSONAL SPACE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; STROKE; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 74449089431     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.037     Document Type: Article

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