Bisecting real and fake body parts: Effects of prism adaptation after right brain damage

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Bolognini, Nadia ^a,b   Casanova, Debora ^a   Maravita, Angelo ^a   Vallar, GiuseppeVallar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body representation; Multisensory; Prismatic adaptation; Space coding; Unilateral spatial neglect

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRISM ADAPTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

EID: 84863874813     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00154     Document Type: Article

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