Short-term visual deprivation does not enhance passive tactile spatial acuity.

An important unresolved question in sensory neuroscience is whether, and if so with what time course, tactile perception is enhanced by visual deprivation. In three experiments involving 158 normally sighted human participants, we assessed whether tactile spatial acuity improves with short-term visu...

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Main Authors: Michael Wong, Erik Hackeman, Caitlin Hurd, Daniel Goldreich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3179498?pdf=render