Mechanisms of self-other representations and vicarious experiences of touch in mirror-touch synaesthesia

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Banissy, Michael J ^a,b   Ward, Jamie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mirror system; Pain; Self other; Synesthesia; Touch

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INSULA; MIRROR TOUCH SYNESTHESIA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84933672661     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00112     Document Type: Article

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