The somatosensory system: Exploration of digit-area somatotopy and feature-based attention

Schweisfurth, Meike Annika

dc.contributor.advisor	Frahm, Jens Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.author	Schweisfurth, Meike Annika
dc.date.accessioned	2013-12-19T10:12:45Z
dc.date.available	2013-12-19T10:12:45Z
dc.date.issued	2013-12-19
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0022-60A2-8
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-4295
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-4295
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
dc.subject.ddc	570	de
dc.title	The somatosensory system: Exploration of digit-area somatotopy and feature-based attention	de
dc.type	doctoralThesis	de
dc.contributor.referee	Frahm, Jens Prof. Dr.
dc.date.examination	2013-06-10
dc.description.abstracteng	Even though the skin is by far the largest sensory organ that we humans possess and immensely important for coping with everyday life, the somatosensory system has been studied far less than the visual or auditory system. Hence, many basic and important questions still remain to be explored. This thesis is devoted to the exploration of several features of the human somatosensory system. With behavioral and systemic tools, light is shed into basic questions of touch processing, thereby contributing to the presently comparatively scarce body of knowledge about somatosensation. This thesis comprises four studies, focusing on two different aspects of the human sense of touch. The first two studies investigate whether and how the peripheral digit-area topography is reflected in the cortical digit and phalanx representations, exploring the presence of across-digit and intra-digit somatotopy and characterizing the individual human all-phalanx digit map in unprecedented detail. Studies three and four explore and partly prove the existence of global feature-based attention in the somatosensory domain, for the first time assessing the issue both with behavioral tools and functional imaging.	de
dc.contributor.coReferee	Treue, Stefan Prof. Dr.
dc.subject.eng	human	de
dc.subject.eng	Brodmann area 3b	de
dc.subject.eng	somatotopy	de
dc.subject.eng	intra-digit	de
dc.subject.eng	across-digit	de
dc.subject.eng	feature-based	de
dc.subject.eng	attention	de
dc.subject.eng	fMRI	de
dc.subject.eng	reaction times	de
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-11858/00-1735-0000-0022-60A2-8-8
dc.affiliation.institute	Göttinger Graduiertenschule für Neurowissenschaften, Biophysik und molekulare Biowissenschaften (GGNB)	de
dc.subject.gokfull	Biologie (PPN619462639)	de
dc.identifier.ppn	775113417

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