Alpha band oscillations correlate with illusory self-location induced by virtual reality

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1935-1943

  Lenggenhager, Bigna ^a   Halje, Pär ^a   Blanke, Olaf ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Frequency analysis; Medial prefrontal cortex; Mu rhythm; Multisensory integration; Peripersonal space

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF LOCATION; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; TOUCH PERCEPTION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955977312     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07647.x     Document Type: Article

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