Implicit body representations and the conscious body image
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Implicit body representations and the conscious body image.
Recent studies have revealed that somatosensory processing relies on a class of implicit body representations showing large distortions of size and shape. The relation between these representations and the conscious body image remains unclear. Dissociations have been reported in the clinical literature on eating disorders between different body image measures, with larger and more consistent di...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Acta Psychologica
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0001-6918
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.07.015