Tactile and vestibular mechanisms underlying ownership for body parts: A non-visual variant of the rubber hand illusion

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 511, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-124

  Lopez, Christophe ^a,b   Bieri, Corinne P ^a   Preuss, Nora ^a   Mast, Fred W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bodily consciousness; Caloric vestibular stimulation; Multisensory integration; Proprioception; Rubber hand illusion; Somatoparaphrenia; Touch; Vestibular system; Visual capture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OWNERSHIP FOR BODY PART; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUBBER HAND ILLUSION; SELF REPORT; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VISUAL FEEDBACK;

ADULT; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; PROPRIOCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857356724     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.01.055     Document Type: Article

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