Effective tactile noise facilitates visual perception

Seeing and Perceiving

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-44

  Lugo, J E ^a   Doti, R ^a   Faubert, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

fulcrum principle; Multisensory integration; stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY CONTENTS; FULCRUM PRINCIPLE; MULTISENSORY; MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION; SIGNAL CHANGES; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; SPECIFIC ENERGY; STOCHASTIC RESONANCES; SUBTHRESHOLD; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WEAK SIGNALS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; VISION;

BRAIN;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOUCH; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE; PROPRIOCEPTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858187171     PISSN: 18784755     EISSN: 18784763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187847611X620900     Document Type: Article

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