Spatial coding of touch at the fingers: Insights from double simultaneous stimulation within and between hands

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 487, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 78-82

  Tamè, Luigi ^a   Farnè, Alessandro ^b,c   Pavani, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Body; Interference; Posture; Spatial code; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND PALM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650218206     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.09.078     Document Type: Article

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