Visuotactile empathy within the primary somatosensory cortex revealed by short-latency afferent inhibition

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 473, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 28-31

  Wood, Rachel ^a   Gallese, Vittorio ^a,c   Cattaneo, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Empathy; Mirror; Short latency afferent inhibition; Simulation; Touch; Transcranial magnetic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SHORT LATENCY AFFERENT INHIBITION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; EMPATHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950630252     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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