Viewing one's own face being touched modulates tactile perception: An fMRI study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 503-513

  Cardini, Flavia ^a   Costantini, Marcello ^b   Galati, Gaspare ^c,d   Romani, Gian Luca ^b   Làdavas, Elisabetta ^a   Serino, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650331400     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21484     Document Type: Article

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