A supramodal representation of the body surface

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1194-1201

  Mancini, Flavia ^a,b   Longo, Matthew R ^a,d   Iannetti, Gian Domenico ^c   Haggard, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body representation; Multisensory integration; Pain; Parietal cortex; Somatosensory perception; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND PALM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954417525     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.12.040     Document Type: Article

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