The importance of synchrony and temporal order of visual and tactile input for illusory limb ownership experiences - An fMRI study applying virtual reality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Bekrater Bodmann, Robin ^a   Foell, Jens ^a,b   Diers, Martin ^a   Kamping, Sandra ^a   Rance, Mariela ^a   Kirsch, Pinar ^a   Trojan, Jörg ^a,c   Fuchs, Xaver ^a   Bach, Felix ^d   Çakmak, Hüseyin Kemal ^d   Maaß, Heiko ^d   Flor, Herta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TACTILE STIMULATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900319481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087013     Document Type: Article

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