Effects of a cross-modal manipulation of attention on somatosensory cortical neuronal responses to tactile stimuli in the monkey

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 3133-3149

  Meftah, El Mehdi ^a   Shenasa, Jafar ^a   Chapman, C Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; LUMINANCE; MONKEY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0036899618     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00121.2002     Document Type: Article

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