Development of brain mechanisms for processing affective touch

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Björnsdotter, Malin ^a   Gordon, Ilanit ^b   Pelphrey, Kevin A ^b   Olausson, Håkan ^a   Kaiser, Martha D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Children; Development; fMRI; Touch

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893571496     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00024     Document Type: Article

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