Right but not left angular gyrus modulates the metric component of the mental body representation: A tDCS study

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-72

  Spitoni, Grazia Fernanda ^a,b   Pireddu, Giorgio ^a,b   Cimmino, Rocco Luca ^a,b   Galati, Gaspare ^a,b   Priori, Alberto ^c   Lavidor, Michal ^d   Jacobson, Liron ^d   Pizzamiglio, Luigi ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Angular gyrus; Body representation; tDCS; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879116952     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3538-9     Document Type: Article

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