The extrastriate body area is involved in illusory limb ownership

NeuroImage

Volumn 86, Issue , 2014, Pages 514-524

  Limanowski, Jakub ^a   Lutti, Antoine ^b   Blankenburg, Felix ^a,c,d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior insula; Body ownership; Extrastriate body area; FMRI; Rubber Hand Illusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; EYE HAND COORDINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BEHAVIORAL ILLUSION SCORE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ILLUSORY LIMB OWNERSHIP; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANTERIOR INSULA; BODY OWNERSHIP; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FMRI; RUBBER HAND ILLUSION;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891561419     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.035     Document Type: Article

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