Visuotactile representation of peripersonal space: A neural network study

Neural Computation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 190-243

  Magosso, Elisa ^a   Zavaglia, Melissa ^a   Serino, Andrea ^b,c   di Pellegrino, Giuseppe ^b,c   Ursino, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Centro Studi e Ricerche in Neuroscienze Cognitive   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INNERVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; ORIENTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ARM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77649257935     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2009.01-08-694     Document Type: Letter

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