The contribution of primary and secondary somatosensory cortices to the representation of body parts and body sides: An fMRI adaptation study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2306-2320

  Tamè, Luigi ^a,b   Braun, Christoph ^a,c   Lingnau, Angelika ^a   Schwarzbach, Jens ^a   Demarchi, Gianpaolo ^a   Li Hegner, Yiwen ^c   Farnè, Alessandro ^d,e   Pavani, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; FEMALE; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; MALE; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FINGERS; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SELF CONCEPT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 84868283180     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00272     Document Type: Article

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