Cross-sensory transfer of sensory-motor information: Visuomotor learning affects performance on an audiomotor task, using sensory-substitution

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Levy Tzedek, Shelly ^a,b   Novick, Itai ^a,b   Arbel, Roni ^a   Abboud, Sami ^a   Maidenbaum, Shachar ^a   Vaadia, Eilon ^a,b   Amedi, Amir ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 84871789163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00949     Document Type: Article

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