Perceived duration of visual and tactile stimuli depends on perceived speed

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Tomassini, Alice ^a   Gori, Monica ^a   Burr, David ^b,c   Sandini, Giulio ^a   Morrone, Maria Concetta ^a,d,e  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d Biblioteca del Dipartimento di Scienze fisiologiche   (Italy)

^e DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Motion; Multisensory integration; Time perception; Touch; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PREDICTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSORY SYSTEM; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VELOCITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 82255179987     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2011.00051     Document Type: Article

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