Spatial tuning of tactile attention modulates visual processing within hemifields: an ERP investigation of crossmodal attention

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 166, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 402-410

  Eimer, Martin ^a   Van Velzen, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Crossmodal; Event related brain potentials; Touch; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27144498915     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-2380-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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