Tactile mental body parts representation in obesity

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 220, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 960-969

  Scarpina, Federica ^a   Castelnuovo, Gianluca ^a,b   Molinari, Enrico ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body representation; Mental imagery; Obesity; Size perception; Somatosensory input

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY REPRESENTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; OBESITY; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; ART; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STIMULATION; TOUCH;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84919632475     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.08.020     Document Type: Article

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