Cross-modal Extinction

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A disorder that typically follows damage to the right hemisphere, in which patients are able to detect single tactile stimuli applied to the contralesional hand in isolation, but show impairments in detecting the same tactile stimuli when an additional visual stimulus is presented on the ipsilesional side.

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Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
Marc D. Binder
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine University of Tokyo Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo, Japan
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Göttingen, Germany
Uwe Windhorst

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(2009). Cross-modal Extinction. In: Binder, M.D., Hirokawa, N., Windhorst, U. (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_1332

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2_1332
Published: 24 January 2024
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