Attention to the body depends on eye-in-orbit position

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Gherri, Elena ^a   Forster, Bettina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endogenous tactile attention; Event related potentials; Eye position; Somatosensory processing; Somatotopic and external space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904904433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00683     Document Type: Article

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