Tactile Perceptual Processes and Their Relationship to Somatoform Disorders

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 530-543

  Katzer, Anna ^a   Oberfeld, Daniel ^a   Hiller, Wolfgang ^a   Gerlach, Alexander L ^b   Witthöft, Michael ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Medically unexplained symptoms; Response bias; Somatic signal detection task; Somatoform disorders; Tactile detection threshold

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC SIGNAL DETECTION TASK; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE FEEDBACK; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF REPORT; VIBRATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SELF REPORT; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864770277     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: 19391846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026536     Document Type: Article

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