Tactile shape discrimination recruits human lateral occipital complex during early perceptual processing

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1813-1821

  Lucan, Joshua N ^a,b   Foxe, John J ^a,b   Gomez Ramirez, Manuel ^a,b   Sathian, K ^c,d,e   Molholm, Sophie ^a,b  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG; LOC; Multisensory; Object recognition; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 78649618155     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20983     Document Type: Article

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