Rapid enhancement of touch from non-informative vision of the hand

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1954-1960

  Cardini, Flavia ^a,b,d   Longo, Matthew R ^c   Driver, Jon ^b,c   Haggard, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Multisensory interaction; Somatosensory processing; Visual enhancement of touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BODY IMAGE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; TOUCH; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84862888267     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.04.020     Document Type: Article

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