Neurological and robot-controlled induction of an apparition

Current Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 2681-2686

  Blanke, Olaf ^a,b   Pozeg, Polona ^a   Hara, Masayuki ^c   Heydrich, Lukas ^b   Serino, Andrea ^a   Yamamoto, Akio ^c   Higuchi, Toshiro ^c   Salomon, Roy ^a   Seeck, Margitta ^b   Landis, Theodor ^b   Arzy, Shahar ^d   Herbelin, Bruno ^a   Bleuler, Hannes ^a   Rognini, Giulio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMAN; ILLUSION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; ROBOTICS;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84923223677     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.049     Document Type: Article

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