Vision holds a greater share in visuo-haptic object recognition than touch

NeuroImage

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 59-68

  Kassuba, Tanja ^a,b,c   Klinge, Corinna ^b,d   Hölig, Cordula ^b,e   Röder, Brigitte ^e   Siebner, Hartwig R ^a,b,c  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

FMRI; Multisensory interactions; Object recognition; Touch perception; Visual dominance; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868228236     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.09.054     Document Type: Article

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