Spatial coordinate systems for tactile spatial attention depend on developmental vision: Evidence from event-related potentials in sighted and congenitally blind adult humans

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 475-483

  Röder, Brigitte ^a,c   Föcker, Julia ^a,c   Hötting, Kirsten ^a,c   Spence, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blindness; Body image; Event related potentials; Sensorimotor integration; Space representation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BLINDNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VISION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47849089729     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06352.x     Document Type: Article

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