Processing of proprioceptive and vestibular body signals and self-transcendence in Ashtanga yoga practitioners

In the rod and frame test (RFT), participants are asked to set a tilted visual linear marker (i.e. a rod), embedded in a square, to the subjective vertical, irrespective of the surrounding frame. People not influenced by the frame tilt are defined as field-independent, while people biased in their r...

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Main Authors: Francesca eFiori, Nicole eDavid, Salvatore Maria Aglioti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00734/full