Mirror-sensory synaesthesia: Exploring 'shared' sensory experiences as synaesthesia

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 645-657

  Fitzgibbon, Bernadette M ^a   Enticott, Peter G ^a   Rich, Anina N ^b   Giummarra, Melita J ^a   Georgiou Karistianis, Nellie ^a   Bradshaw, John L ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mirror systems; Pain; Synaesthesia; Touch

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; CHRONIC PAIN; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXPERIENCE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; MIRROR SENSORY SYNESTHESIA; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHANTOM PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERRED PAIN; REVIEW; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TOUCH;

HUMANS; IMAGINATION; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSATION;

EID: 82855172074     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.09.006     Document Type: Review

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