Perceptual learning and referral in the tactile system

Neural Plasticity in Adult Somatic Sensory-Motor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 97-108

  Sathian, K ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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