Haptic perception and body representation in lateral and medial occipito-temporal cortices

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 821-829

  Costantini, Marcello ^a   Urgesi, Cosimo ^b,c   Galati, Gaspare ^d,e   Romani, Gian Luca ^a   Aglioti, Salvatore M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c Polo Friuli Venezia Giulia   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body perception; Extrastriate body area (EBA); FMRI; Fusiform body area (FBA); Haptic exploration; Multimodal body processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY PERCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM BODY AREA; HAPTIC PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954416020     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.01.034     Document Type: Article

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