Tactile coactivation-induced changes in spatial discrimination performance

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1597-1604

  Godde, Ben ^a   Stauffenberg, Beate ^b   Spengler, Friederike ^b   Dinse, Hubert R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative pairing; Attention; Coactivation; Cortical reorganization; Hebbian learning; Humans; Perceptual learning; Plasticity; Somatosensory; Tactile

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

EID: 0034652180     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-04-01597.2000     Document Type: Article

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