Mechanisms of attention in touch

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-10

  Lloyd, Donna M ^a   Bolanowski Jr , Stanley J ^b   Howard, Louise ^c   McGlone, Francis ^a  

^a UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Facilitation; Inhibition of return; Tactile perception; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 0033067254     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990229970609     Document Type: Article

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