Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 5 , Pages 602-609 , May 2009

Seeing the hand boosts feeling on the cheek

  • Andrea Serino

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
    • Centro Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive, Polo Scientifico–Didattico di Cesena, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Centro Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive, Università di Bologna, Via Brusi, 20, 47123 Cesena, Italy.
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  • Sonia Padiglioni

      Affiliations

    • Centro Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive, Polo Scientifico–Didattico di Cesena, Italy
    • ,
  • Patrick Haggard

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
    • Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
    • ,
  • Elisabetta Làdavas

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
    • Centro Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive, Polo Scientifico–Didattico di Cesena, Italy

Received 14 June 2007 ,Revised 12 December 2007 ,Accepted 14 March 2008.

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☆ This work has been supported by an MIUR grant to E.L.

PII: S0010-9452(08)00127-5

doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.03.008

Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 5 , Pages 602-609 , May 2009

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