Full body illusion is associated with widespread skin temperature reduction

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Salomon, R ^a   Lim, M ^a   Pfeiffer, C ^a   Gassert, R ^c   Blanke, O ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bodily self consciousness; Body illusion; Body representation; Bodyownership; Neuroscience robotics; Self representation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BACK; BODILY SELF CONCIOUSNESS; BODY REPRESENTATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FULL BODY ILLUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; LEG; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ROBOTICS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TACTILE STIMULATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84878361626     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00065     Document Type: Article

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