Now you feel it - Now you don't: ERP correlates of somatosensory awareness

Psychophysiology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 31-40

  Schubert, Ruth ^a   Blankenburg, Felix ^a   Lemm, Steven ^a,b   Villringer, Arno ^a   Curio, Gabriel ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER FIRST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frontoparietal network; Masking; Perceptual awareness; Primary somatosensory cortex; Somatosensory event related potentials; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASKING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 33645280084     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2006.00379.x     Document Type: Article

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