Feeling what you hear: Auditory signals can modulate tactile tap perception

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 172-180

  Bresciani, Jean Pierre ^a   Ernst, Marc O ^a   Drewing, Knut ^a   Bouyer, Guillaume ^b   Maury, Vincent ^b   Kheddar, Abderrahmane ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory; Illusions; Multimodal integration; Sensory systems; Tactile

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

EID: 17444393953     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2128-2     Document Type: Article

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