Guest Lecture of Chris Dijkerman

Guest Lecture of Chris Dijkerman

From the University of Utrecht


Date: 9 January 2013

Topic: Somatosensory and Body Representation Deficits after Stroke

Abstract:
Somatosensory information is important not only for exploration of our immediate environment, but especially for informing us about our own body. During the last decade or so considerable progress has been made with respect to the underlying functional and neural mechanisms. In our lab we have used a combination of behavioural experiments and neuropsychological case studies to assess different aspects of somatosensory processing and body representation. In this presentation, I will focus on body representations deficits after stroke. In particular, I will discuss different aspects, such as how fingers are represented in finger agnosia, and body ownership and the role of affective touch in somatoparaphrenia.