Central mechanisms of tactile shape perception

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 418-424

  Hsiao, Steven ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 55249092433     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2008.09.001     Document Type: Review

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