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SUBMITTER: Shokur S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3773736 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shokur Solaiman S O'Doherty Joseph E JE Winans Jesse A JA Bleuler Hannes H Lebedev Mikhail A MA Nicolelis Miguel A L MA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130826 37
The brain representation of the body, called the body schema, is susceptible to plasticity. For instance, subjects experiencing a rubber hand illusion develop a sense of ownership of a mannequin hand when they view it being touched while tactile stimuli are simultaneously applied to their own hand. Here, the cortical basis of such an embodiment was investigated through concurrent recordings from primary somatosensory (i.e., S1) and motor (i.e., M1) cortical neuronal ensembles while two monkeys o ...[more]