Hearing shapes our perception of time: Temporal discrimination of tactile stimuli in deaf people

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 276-286

  Bolognini, Nadia ^a   Cecchetto, Carlo ^a   Geraci, Carlo ^a   Maravita, Angelo ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^b   Papagno, Costanza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; BRAIN; DEAFNESS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME PERCEPTION; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84555177871     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00135     Document Type: Article

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