The Cognitive and Neural Correlates of Tactile Memory

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 380-406

  Gallace, Alberto ^a   Spence, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

memory; multisensory integration; somatosensory cortex; spatial processing; tactile processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; MEMORY; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 65549169461     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015325     Document Type: Article

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