Vision of the body modulates processing in primary somatosensory cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 489, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 159-163

  Longo, Matthew R ^a,b   Pernigo, Simone ^c   Haggard, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body representation; SI; Somatosensory evoked potential

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78751581700     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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