Touch activates human auditory cortex

NeuroImage

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1325-1331

  Schürmann, Martin ^a   Caetano, Gina ^a   Hlushchuk, Yevhen ^a   Jousmäki, Veikko ^a   Hari, Riitta ^a,b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Audiotactile interaction; Auditory belt area; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Human auditory cortex; Multisensory; Vibrotactile stimuli

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND PALM; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; TACTILE STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 33646157945     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.11.020     Document Type: Article

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