Expanding the primate body schema in sensorimotor cortex by virtual touches of an avatar

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 37, 2013, Pages 15121-15126

  Shokur, Solaiman ^a   O'Doherty, Joseph E ^b,c   Winans, Jesse A ^b   Bleuler, Hannes ^a   Lebedev, Mikhail A ^c,d   Nicolelis, Miguel A L ^b,c,d,e  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b USA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cortical plasticity; Multielectrode recordings

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HAPLORHINI; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX;

CORTICAL PLASTICITY; MULTIELECTRODE RECORDINGS;

ANIMALS; BODY IMAGE; HAND; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; TOUCH; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84883744964     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1308459110     Document Type: Article

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