Vision enhances selective attention to body-related information

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 483, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 184-188

  Gillmeister, Helge ^a,b   Forster, Bettina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ERPs; Somatosensory processing; Tactile attentional mechanisms; Viewing the body

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; VISION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956289497     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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