The role of self-touch in somatosensory and body representation disorders after stroke

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1581, 2011, Pages 3142-3152

  van Stralen, H E ^a   van Zandvoort, M J E ^a   Dijkerman, H C ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active touch; Body image; Body ownership; Body schema; Misoplegia; Somatoparaphrenia

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIMB; PERCEPTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; STROKE;

EID: 80053549370     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0163     Document Type: Review

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