Which finger? Early effects of attentional selection within the hand are absent when the hand is viewed

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1874-1881

  Gillmeister, Helge ^a,b   Sambo, Chiara F ^b,c   Forster, Bettina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event related potentials (ERPs); Hand; Somatosensory; Spatial attention; Vision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HAND; INNERVATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952635684     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07195.x     Document Type: Article

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