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Elisa R Ferrè1, Brian L Day, Gabriella Bottini

  • 1Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK. e.ferre@ucl.ac.uk

Neuroscience Letters
|July 6, 2013
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Keywords:
CVSEPSPsGVSGalvanic vestibular stimulationMultisensory integrationOPPIVCSIISSDTTactile perceptionVestibular systemcaloric vestibular stimulationexcitatory postsynaptic potentialsgalvanic vestibular stimulationparietal operculumparieto insular vestibular cortexsecondary somatosensory cortexsomatosensory signal detection task

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