Noninformative Vision Causes Adaptive Changes in Tactile Sensitivity
Noninformative Vision Causes Adaptive Changes in Tactile Sensitivity is a scholarly work by Justin A Harris, Ehsan Arabzadeh, and Colin W G Clifford, published in 2007 in ''The Journal of Neuroscience''. The main subjects of the publication include cognitive psychology, Sensory stimulation therapy, Modalities, psychology, stimulus modality, multisensory integration, audiology, neuroscience, stimulus, psychophysics, computer vision, visual perception, stimulus, ocular adaptation, neural adaptation, tactile discrimination, sensory nervous system, perception, and somatosensory system. The authors conclude that noninformative vision of the body does not simply enhance somatosensory processing, but rather it induces adaptive changes in tactile sensitivity via shifts in gain control operating within a bimodal sensory system.