Pleasant touch moderates the subjective but not objective aspects of body perception

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Lloyd, Donna M ^a   Gillis, Victoria ^b   Lewis, Elizabeth ^b   Farrell, Martin J ^b   Morrison, India ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CT afferents; Insula; Pleasant touch; Proprioceptive drift; Rubber hand illusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GLABROUS SKIN; HUMAN; ILLUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROPRIOCEPTION; PROPRIOCEPTION DRIFT; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY NERVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891072837     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00207     Document Type: Article

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