Leg muscle vibration modulates bodily self-consciousness: Integration of proprioceptive, visual, and tactile signals

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2239-2247

  Palluel, Estelle ^a   Aspell, Jane Elizabeth ^a   Blanke, Olaf ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body; Crossmodal congruency effect; Somatosensory; Visuotactile

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BODY MOVEMENT; CROSS MODAL CONGRUENCY EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; LEG MUSCLE; LEG MUSCLE VIBRATION; MALE; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPINE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VIBRATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANKLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; PROPRIOCEPTION; SELF CONCEPT; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956278236     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00744.2010     Document Type: Article

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