Illusory self-identification with an avatar reduces arousal responses to painful stimuli

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 261, Issue , 2014, Pages 275-281

  Romano, Daniele ^a,b   Pfeiffer, Christian ^b   Maravita, Angelo ^a   Blanke, Olaf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Body representation; Full body illusion; Pain; Self identification; Skin conductance response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SELF CONCEPT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ANALGESIA; BODY REPRESENTATION; FULL BODY ILLUSION; PAIN; SELF-IDENTIFICATION; SKIN CONDUCTANCE RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; PAIN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892455502     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.12.049     Document Type: Article

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