Touch Interacts with Vision during Binocular Rivalry with a Tight Orientation Tuning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Lunghi, Claudia ^a,b   Alais, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BINOCULAR VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RETINA RIVALRY; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRIATE CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; BRAIN; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PROBABILITY; TOUCH; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874618352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058754     Document Type: Article

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