What colour is my arm? Changes in skin colour of an embodied virtual arm modulates pain threshold

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Martini, M ^a,b   Perez Marcos, D ^a,b   Sanchez Vives, Maria V ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Body ownership; Multisensory 14 integration; Multisensory stimulation; Pain modulation; Pain threshold; Virtual arm; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; SKIN COLOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL STIMULATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL ILLUSION;

EID: 84933671491     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00438     Document Type: Article

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