Contralateral tactile masking between forearms

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 821-826

  D'Amour, Sarah ^a,b   Harris, Laurence R ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross body tactile inhibition; Long range masking; QUEST; Somatosensory psychophysics; Somatosensory sensitivity; Tactile detection thresholds

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; TACTILE STIMULATION; VIBRATION; VIBROTACTILE MASKING; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TOUCH; VIBRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84895430126     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3791-y     Document Type: Article

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