Voluntary out-of-body experience: An fMRI study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 FEB, 2014, Pages

  Smith, Andra M ^a   Messier, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body representation; Cerebellum; Kinesthetic imagery; Motor imagery; Out of body experiences; Somatosensory systems; Temporal parietal junction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXTRACORPOREAL EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GUIDED IMAGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893667466     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00070     Document Type: Article

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