Attention to sound improves auditory reliability in audio-tactile spatial optimal integration

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Vercillo, Tiziana ^a   Gori, Monica ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory; Bayes theorem; Multisensory integration; Sensory cue

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; AUDIO TACTILE SIGNAL; AUDIO TACTILE SPATIAL TASK; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TACTILE STIMULATION;

EID: 84930205566     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2015.00034     Document Type: Article

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