Sensory funneling of liminal multiple- point air-puff stimulation produces dramatic reduction in reaction time but relatively invariant P300 somatosensory evoked potential

NeuroReport

Volumn 10, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3201-3205

  Hashimoto, Isao ^a,b   Yoshikawa, Kazuyoshi ^a   Kimura, Tomoaki ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air puff stimulation; Confidence; Detection probability; Dissociation; Funneled sensations; Human; Liminal perception; Multiple point stimulation; P300; Reaction time; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SKIN STIMULATION;

EID: 0032705784     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-199910190-00014     Document Type: Article

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