Stroking or Buzzing? A Comparison of Somatosensory Touch Stimuli Using 7 Tesla fMRI.

Studying body representations in the brain helps us to understand how we humans relate to our own bodies. The in vivo mapping of the somatosensory cortex, where these representations are found, is greatly facilitated by the high spatial resolution and high sensitivity to brain activation available a...

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Main Authors: Wietske van der Zwaag, Rolf Gruetter, Roberto Martuzzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4540472?pdf=render