From maps to form to space: Touch and the body schema

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 645-654

  Medina, Jared ^a   Coslett, H Branch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body form; Body schema; Body shape; Postural representation; Proprioception; Somatosensory; Somatosensory frames of reference; Tactile object constancy; Touch

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY IMAGE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; DEAFFERENTATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HAND AMPUTATION; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SKIN FUNCTION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; PERSONAL SPACE; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 74849126205     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.08.017     Document Type: Article

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