Perception of the touch-induced visual double-flash illusion correlates with changes of rhythmic neuronal activity in human visual and somatosensory areas

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1395-1405

  Lange, Joachim ^a,b   Oostenveld, Robert ^a,c   Fries, Pascal ^a,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ERNST STRÜNGMANN INSTITUTE ESI FOR NEUROSCIENCE IN COOPERATION WITH MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Illusion; MEG; Oscillation; Somatosensory; Visual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DOUBLE FLASH ILLUSION; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 78649650982     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.09.031     Document Type: Article

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