When visual transients impair tactile change detection: A novel case of crossmodal change blindness?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 398, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 280-285

  Gallace, Alberto ^a,b   Auvray, Malika ^a,c   Tan, Hong Z ^d   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Body representation; Change blindness; Multisensory; Spatial representation; Tactile information processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHANGE BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TOUCH; VIBRATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33646365917     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.01.009     Document Type: Article

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