Seeing and feeling for self and other: Proprioceptive spatial location determines multisensory enhancement of touch

Cognition

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 84-92

  Cardini, Flavia ^a,b   Haggard, Patrick ^b   Ladavas, Elisabetta ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bodily self; Multisensory interaction; Self other; Visual Enhancement of Touch; Visual Remapping of Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873869904     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.12.010     Document Type: Article

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