Reaching out to see: Arm position can attenuate human visual loss

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 935-943

  Schendel, Krista ^a,b   Robertson, Lynn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Building 127E   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROSCIENCE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; ARM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISION, LOW; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 3242884951     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929041502698     Document Type: Article

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