Neuropsychology: the touchy, feely side of vision.
Some visual attributes, such as colour, are purely visual, but others, such as orientation and movement, can be perceived by touch or audition. A magnetic stimulation study has now shown that the perception of tactile orientation may be influenced by visual Information.
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Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK. vin@psy.ox.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D006801:Humans; D008280:Magnetics; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014110:Touch / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*