New perspectives on perspective-taking mechanisms and the out-of-body experience

Cortex

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 628-632

  Braithwaite, Jason J ^a   Dent, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; ILLUSION; IMAGERY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOTE; PARIETAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

BRAIN; CLASSIFICATION; CUES; HUMANS; MANIKINS; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 79952699581     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.11.008     Document Type: Note

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