Thinking about touch facilitates tactile but not auditory processing

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 218, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 373-380

  Anema, Helen A ^a,b   De Haan, Alyanne M ^a   Gebuis, Titia ^c   Dijkerman, H Chris ^a,d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Human; Perception; Somatosensory; Tactile; Tactile imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; THINKING; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862865697     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3020-0     Document Type: Article

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