Back-to-front: Improved tactile discrimination performance in the space you cannot see

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 400, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 163-167

  Kóbor, István ^a   Füredi, László ^a   Kovács, Gyula ^b   Spence, Charles ^c   Vidnyánszky, Zoltán ^a,d  

^a PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^c Sciences Budapest University of Technology and Economics ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Human; Learning; Professional piano players; Tactile temporal order judgment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33646127145     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.02.037     Document Type: Article

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