Vision and touch in ageing: Crossmodal selective attention and visuotactile spatial interactions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 507-517

  Poliakoff, E ^a   Ashworth, S ^a   Lowe, C ^a   Spence, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Multisensory; Posture; Selection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY NERVE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TOUCH; VISION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 30944432331     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

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