Visual-tactile integration: Does stimulus duration influence the relative amount of response enhancement?

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 514-520

  Rach, Stefan ^a   Diederich, Adele ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inverse effectiveness; Multisensory integration; Saccadic reaction time; Stimulus duration; Visual tactile interaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; EYE FIXATION; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAMMAL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TIME PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH; VIBRATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33747114092     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0452-4     Document Type: Article

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