Sustained spatial attention in touch: Modality-specific and multimodal mechanisms

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Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages 199-213

  Sambo, Chiara F ^a   Forster, Bettina ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body posture; Event related potentials (ERPs); Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Multimodal; Positron emission tomography (PET); Spatial attention; Touch

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BODY POSTURE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HAND; HUMAN; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EVOKED POTENTIALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTURE; TOUCH;

EID: 79551478713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2011.34     Document Type: Review

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