Differential effects of synchronous and asynchronous multifinger coactivation on human tactile performance

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kalisch, Tobias ^a   Tegenthoff, Martin ^b   Dinse, Hubert R ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE MEMORY; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOUCH;

EID: 34548076267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-8-58     Document Type: Article

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