Feeling by sight or seeing by touch?

Neuron

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 173-179

  Merabet, Lotfi ^a   Thut, Gregor ^a   Murray, Brian ^a   Andrews, Jessica ^a   Hsiao, Steven ^b   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VISION;

EID: 1842557787     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(04)00147-3     Document Type: Article

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