- Abstract:
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The perception of the size and shape of one's body (body image) is a fundamental aspect of how we experience ourselves. We studied the neural correlates underlying perceived changes in the relative size of body parts by using a perceptual illusion in which participants felt that their waist was shrinking. We scanned the brains of the participants using functional magnetic resonance imaging. We found that activity in the cortices lining the left postcentral sulcus and the anterior part of the ...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Publisher's Version
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS Biology Journal website
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 12
- Pages:
- e412
- Publication date:
- 2005-11-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2005-10-03
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1545-7885
- ISSN:
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1544-9173
- URN:
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uuid:be540d0b-8038-4de1-ab15-510132b9a633
- Source identifiers:
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12365
- Local pid:
- pubs:12365
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright holder:
- Ehrsson et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2005
- Notes:
- © 2005 Ehrsson et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Neural substrate of body size: illusory feeling of shrinking of the waist
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