Haptic selective attention by foot and by hand

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 419, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-9

  Hajnal, Alen ^a   Fonseca, Sergio ^b   Kinsella Shaw, Jeffrey M ^a   Silva, Paula ^a   Carello, Claudia ^a   Turvey, M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dynamic touch; Foot; Hand; Perception

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIATION; FOOT; HAND; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGAMENT; MECHANORECEPTOR; MUSCLE; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RELIABILITY; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TENDON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; PROPRIOCEPTION; TOUCH;

EID: 34247877601     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.03.042     Document Type: Article

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