Typical biomechanical bias in the perception of congenitally absent hands

Cortex

Volumn 67, Issue , 2015, Pages 147-150

  Vannuscorps, Gilles ^a,b,c   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; CEREBRAL PALSY; DECISION MAKING; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LETTER; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; VOCALIZATION; ADULT; BODY IMAGE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; PERCEPTION; PHOCOMELIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BODY IMAGE; ECTROMELIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84930180941     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.02.015     Document Type: Letter

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