Seeing touch and pain in a stranger modulates the cortical responses elicited by somatosensory but not auditory stimulation

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2873-2884

  Valentini, Elia ^a,b   Liang, Meng ^a   Aglioti, Salvatore Maria ^b   Iannetti, Gian Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

EEG; Multisensory; Nociception; Pain observation; Source analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NOCICEPTIVE PAIN; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84868643257     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21408     Document Type: Article

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