Practice-related improvements in somatosensory interval discrimination are temporally specific but generalize across skin location, hemisphere, and modality

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1559-1570

  Nagarajan, Srikantan S ^a   Blake, David T ^a   Wright, Beverly A ^b   Byl, Nancy ^a   Merzenich, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Hearing; Human; Interval; Perceptual learning; Psychophysics; Somatosensory; Tactile; Temporal processing; Time; Touch; Vibrotactile

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HEARING; HUMAN; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TIME; TOUCH; VIBRATION SENSE;

EID: 0032519874     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-04-01559.1998     Document Type: Article

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