Visual perception of bodily interactions in the primary somatosensory cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2317-2323

  Rossetti, Angela ^a   Miniussi, Carlo ^b,c   Maravita, Angelo ^a   Bolognini, Nadia ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body; Crossmodal; Somatosensory cortex; TMS; Touch; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE FEEDBACK; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84864813227     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08137.x     Document Type: Article

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