Feeling for space or for time: Task-dependent modulation of the cortical representation of identical vibrotactile stimuli

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 480, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 143-147

  Godde, Ben ^a   Diamond, Mathew E ^b   Braun, Christoph ^c,d  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Cortex; Functional MRI; Somatosensory; Tactile; Topography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; TIME PERCEPTION; VIBRATION SENSE; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN CORTEX; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FINGER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TOUCH; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NOISE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954534267     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.06.027     Document Type: Article

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