Ventral Premotor Cortex May Be Required for Dynamic Changes in the Feeling of Limb Ownership: A Lesion Study

• Published in: The Journal of neuroscience Vol. 31; no. 13; pp. 4852 - 4857
• Main Authors: Zeller, Daniel, Gross, Catharina, Bartsch, Andreas, Johansen-Berg, Heidi, Classen, Joseph
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Society for Neuroscience 30.03.2011
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Brain Mapping - methods; Brief Communications; Emotions - physiology; Extremities - physiology; Female; Hand - physiology; Humans; Illusions - physiology; Illusions - psychology; Male; Middle Aged; Motor Cortex - physiology; Photic Stimulation - methods; Proprioception - physiology; Stroke - physiopathology; Stroke - psychology; Visual Perception - physiology; Young Adult

The feeling of “body ownership” may be experimentally investigated by perceptual illusions. The “rubber hand illusion” (RHI) leads human subjects to experience an artificial hand as their own. According to functional imaging, the ventral premotor cortex (PMv) plays a key role in the integration of m...