Hands behind your back: Effects of arm posture on tactile attention in the space behind the body

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 489-497

  Gillmeister, Helge ^a   Forster, Bettina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body representation; ERPs; Somatosensory; Spatial attention; Tactile

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK; BODY POSTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPACE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; ARM; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SENSORY FEEDBACK;

ADULT; ARM; ATTENTION; CUES; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861538465     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2953-z     Document Type: Article

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