Multisensory parietal cortex contributes to visual enhancement of touch in humans: A single-pulse TMS study

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 501-507

  Konen, Christina S ^a   Haggard, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multisensory feedback; Posterior parietal cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual enhancement of touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOLLOW UP; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

MULTISENSORY FEEDBACK; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL ENHANCEMENT OF TOUCH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896354657     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs331     Document Type: Article

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