Active tool use with the contralesional hand can reduce cross-modal extinction of touch on that hand.

After a unilateral brain lesion, patients may show cross-modal, visual-tactile extinction. Such patients may fail to report tactile stimuli on the contralesional hand when presented together with competing visual stimuli near the ipsilesional hand. In this work we tested the hypothesis that this cro...

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Main Authors: Maravita, A, Clarke, K, Husain, M, Driver, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2002