Alexithymia modulates the experience of the rubber hand illusion

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JUNE, 2015, Pages

  Grynberg, Delphine ^a   Pollatos, Olga ^b  

^a FNRS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Body ownership; Multisensory integration; Proprioception; Rubber hand illusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; ASYNCHRONOUS STIMULATION; BODY OWNERSHIP; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUSION; MALE; MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTION; RUBBER HAND ILLUSION; SELF CONTROL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNCHRONOUS STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84934945272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00357     Document Type: Article

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