Vision of the body modulates somatosensory intracortical inhibition

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2014-2022

  Cardini, Flavia ^a,b   Longo, Matthew R ^b   Haggard, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

lateral inhibition; multisensory integration; suppressive interaction; visual enhancement of touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SUPPRESSION INDEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY IMAGE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERNEURONS; MALE; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051757553     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq267     Document Type: Article

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