Multisensory brain mechanisms of bodily self-consciousness

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 556-571

  Blanke, Olaf ^a,b,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Brain Mind Institute   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; BODY IMAGE; BODY POSITION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; KINESTHESIA; LIMB MOVEMENT; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGIST; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION; WALKING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SELF CONCEPT;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84864131975     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3292     Document Type: Review

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