The functional architecture of the human body: Assessing body representation by sorting body parts and activities

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 119-129

  Bläsing, Bettina ^a   Schack, Thomas ^a   Brugger, Peter ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body representation; Body schema; Congenital phantoms; Limb aplasia; Mental representation; Paralysis paraplegia; Phantom sensations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY REGIONS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEAD; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MENINGITIS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PARAPLEGIA; PHANTOM; PHOCOMELIA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARM; ATHLETES; BODY IMAGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PARAPARESIS; PHANTOM LIMB; WHEELCHAIRS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952293692     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2216-4     Document Type: Article

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