Cortical processing of tactile direction discrimination based on spatiotemporal cues in man

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 501, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-49

  Lundblad, Linda C ^a,b   Olausson, Håkan W ^a,b   Hermansson, Anna Karin ^a   Wasling, Helena Backlund ^a,b  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anterior insular cortex; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; FMRI; Slowly adapting type 1 afferents; Slowly adapting type 2 afferents; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960979172     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.06.040     Document Type: Article

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