Neural Substrates of Tactile Object Recognition: An fMRI Study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 236-246

  Reed, Catherine L ^a   Shoham, Shy ^b   Halgren, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Haptic; Human; Object recognition; Second somatosensory cortex; Somatosensory; Somatosensory cortex; Tactile; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALPATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 1842678271     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.10162     Document Type: Article

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