Judging roughness by sight-A 7-tesla fMRI study on responsivity of the primary somatosensory cortex during observed touch of self and others

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1882-1895

  Kuehn, Esther ^a   Trampel, Robert ^a   Mueller, Karsten ^a   Turner, Robert ^a   Schütz Bosbach, Simone ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

7 Tesla; FMRI; Observed touch; Primary somatosensory cortex; S1; Self and other

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FACTORIAL DESIGN; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; ROUGHNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

7 TESLA; FMRI; OBSERVED TOUCH; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; S1; SELF AND OTHER;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880133542     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22031     Document Type: Article

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