Patterns of neural activity in the human ventral premotor cortex reflect a whole-body multisensory percept

NeuroImage

Volumn 109, Issue , 2015, Pages 328-340

  Gentile, Giovanni ^a   Björnsdotter, Malin ^a,b   Petkova, Valeria I ^a   Abdulkarim, Zakaryah ^a   Ehrsson, H Henrik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND; HUMAN; ILLUSION; LEG; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMETRY; PUTAMEN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; MOTOR CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922463779     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.008     Document Type: Article

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