Tool use changes multisensory interactions in seconds: Evidence from the crossmodal congruency task

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 465-476

  Holmes, Nicholas P ^a,c   Calvert, Gemma A ^b   Spence, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c U534 Éspace et Action ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Peripersonal space; Reaction time; Tactile; Visual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS; PERSONAL SPACE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VIBRATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 35648986684     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1060-7     Document Type: Article

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