Central mechanisms for two-point discrimination in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 342, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 187-190

  Tamura, Yohei ^a,b   Hoshiyama, Minoru ^a,c   Inui, Koji ^a   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortex; Electrical stimulation; Human; Reaction time; Two point discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TWO POINT DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0038369842     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00291-X     Document Type: Article

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