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Jones, A. & Forster, B. (2013). Independent effects of endogenous and exogenous attention in touch. Somatosensory and Motor Research.  

Jones, A. & Forster, B. (2013). Lost in vision: ERP correlates of exogenous tactile attention when engaging in a visual task. Neuropsychologia  51(4):675-685.

Sambo, C.F., Forster, B., Williams, S. & Iannett, G.D (2012). To blink or not to blink: fine cognitive tuning of the defensive peripersonal space. Journal of Neuroscience 32(37): 12921-7.

Gherri, E. & Forster, B. (2012). The orienting of attention during eye and hand movements: ERP evidence for similar frame of reference but different spatially specific modulations of tactile processing. Biological Psychology 29;91(2):172-184.

Gherri, E. & Forster, B. (2012). Crossing the hands disrupts tactile spatial attention but not motor attention: Evidence from event-related potentials. Neuropsychologia 50(9): 2303-16.

Gillmeister, H. & Forster, B. (2012). Adverse effects of viewing the hand on tactile-spatial selection between fingers depend on finger posture. Experimental Brain Research  221(3): 269-78.

Sambo, C.F., Vallar, G., Fortis, P., Ronchi, R., Posteraro, L., Forster, B. & Maravita, A. (2012). Visual and spatial modulation of tactile extinction: behavioural and electrophysiological evidence. Frontiers Human Neuroscience 6: 217.

Gillmeister, H. & Forster, B. (2012). Hands behind your back: effects of arm posture on tactile attention in the space behind the body. Experimental Brain Research 216(4): 489-97.

Jones, A. & Forster, B. (2012). Reflexive attention in touch: An investigation of event related potentials and behavioural responses. Biological Psychology 89(2): 313-22.

Forster, B. & Gillmeister, B. (2011). ERP investigation of transient attentional selection of single and multiple locations within touch. Psychophysiology 48(6): 788-96.

Sambo, C. F. & Forster, B. (2011). Sustained spatial attention in touch: modality-specific and multimodal mechanisms. Scientific World Journal 11: 199-213.

Sambo, C. F. & Forster, B. (2011). When far is near: ERP correlates of crossmodal spatial interactions between tactile and mirror-reflected visual stimuli. Neuroscience Letters 500(1): 10-5.

Gherri, E. & Forster, B. (2010). The spatial reference frames employed during hand and eye movment preparation: Evidence from lateralized ERP components. Psychophysiology 47(1): S101.

Gillmeister, H. & Forster, B. (2010). Vision enhances selective attention to body-related information. Neuroscience Letters 483: 184-188.

Gillmeister, H., Sambo, C.F. & Forster, B. (2010). Which finger? Early effects of attentional selection within the hand are absent when the hand is viewed. European Journal of Neuroscience 31(10): 1874-1881. [Special Issue: Multisensory Processes]

Gillmeister, H., Adler, J., & Forster, B. (2010). Object-based Spatial Attention in Touch: Holding the Same Object with Both Hands Delays Attentional Selection. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 22(5): 931-942 [Journal cover art]

Forster, B., Sambo, C.F. & Pavone, E.F. (2009). ERP correlates of tactile spatial attention differ under intra- and intermodal conditions. Biological Psychology, 82: 227-233.

Sambo, C.F., Gillmeister, H. & Forster, B. (2009). Viewing the body modulates sustained spatial attention in touch. European Journal of Neuroscience, 30: 143 - 150.

Forster, B. & Pavone, E.F. (2008). Electrophysiological correlates of crossmodal visual distractor congruency effects: evidence for response conflict. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience  8: 65-73.

Sambo, C.F. & Forster, B. (2008). An ERP Investigation on Visuotactile Interactions in Peripersonal and Extrapersonal Space: Evidence for the Spatial Rule. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21: 1550 - 1559.  

Forster, B., & Eimer, M. (2007). Covert unimanual response preparation triggers attention shifts to effectors rather than goal locations. Neuroscience Letters 419: 142-146. [PDF] NeurosciLet 2007

Forster, B., Eardley, A.F., & Eimer, M. (2007). Altered tactile spatial attention in the blind. Brain Research 1131: 149-154. [PDF] Brain Res 2007

Van Velzen, J., Eardley, A.F., Forster, B., & Eimer, M. (2006) Shifts of attention in the early blind: An ERP study of attentional control processes in the absence of visual spatial information. Neuropsychologia 44: 2533-2546. [PDF] Neuropsy 2006

Forster, B., & Eimer, M. (2005). Vision and gaze direction modulate tactile processing in somatosensory cortex: evidence from event-related brain potentials. Experimental Brain Research 165: 8-18. [PDF] EBR 2005

Forster, B., & Eimer, M. (2005). Covert attention in touch: behavioural and electrophysiological evidence for cost and benefits. Psychophysiology 42:171-179. [PDF] Psychophys 2005

Eimer, M., Forster, B., & Vibel, J. (2005). Cutaneous saltation within and across arms: A new measure of the saltation illusion in somatosensation. Perception & Psychophysics 67: 458-468. [PDF] P&P 2005

Eimer, M. Forster, B., Van Velzen, J., & Prabu, G. (2005). Covert manual response preparation triggers attentional shifts: ERP evidence for the premotor theory of attention. Neuropsychologia 43: 957-966. [PDF] Neuropsy 2005

Forster, B., & Eimer, M. (2004). The attentional selection of spatial and non-spatial attributes in touch: ERP evidence for parallel and independent processes. Biological Psychology 66:1-20. [PDF] BiolPsych 2004

Eimer, M., Forster, B., Fieger, A., & Harbich, S. (2004). Effects of hand posture on preparatory control processes and sensory modulations in tactile-spatial attention. Clinical Neurophysiology 115:596-608. [PDF] ClinNeurophys 2004

Bueti, B., Costantini, M., Forster, B., & Aglioti, S.M. (2004). Uni- and cross-modal temporal modulation of tactile extinction in right brain damaged patients. Neuropsychologia 42: 1689-1696. [PDF] Neuropsych 2004

Eimer, M., Forster, B., & Van Velzen, J. (2003). Anterior and posterior attentional control systems use different spatial reference frames: ERP evidence from covert tactile-spatial orienting. Psychophysiology 40: 924-933. [PDF] Psychophys 2003

Eimer, M. & Forster, B. (2003). The spatial distribution of attentional selectivity in touch: Evidence from somatosensory ERP components Clinical Neurophysiology 114: 1298-1306. [PDF] ClinNeuropsych 2003

Corballis, M. C. & Forster, B. A. (2003). Water under the bridge: Interhemispheric visuomotor integration in a split-brained man. In Zaidel, E. & Iacoboni, M. (Eds.). The Parallel Brain; The cognitive Neuroscience of the Corpus Callosum (pp. 337-339). Bradford/MIT Press.

Eimer, M., & Forster, B. (2003). Modulations of early somatosensory ERP components by transient and sustained spatial attention. Experimental Brain Research 151: 24-31. [PDF] EBR 2003

Eimer, M., Van Velzen, J., Forster, B., & Driver, J. (2003). Shifts of attention in light and in darkness: An ERP study of supramodal attentional control and crossmodal links in spatial attention. Cognitive Brain Research 15: 308-323. [PDF] CBR 2003

Aglioti, S.M., Fiorio, M., Forster, B., & Tinazzi, M. (2003). Temporal discrimination of cross-modal and unimodal stimuli in generalized dystonia. Neurology 60(5): 782-785.

Forster, B., Cavina-Pratesi, C., Aglioti, S.M. & Berlucchi, G. (2002). Redundant target effect and intersensory facilitation from visual-tactile interactions in simple reaction time. Experimental Brain Research 143:480-487. [PDF] EBR 2002

Van Velzen, J., Forster, B., & Eimer, M. (2002). Temporal dynamics of lateralised ERP components elicited during endogenous attentional shifts to relevant tactile events. Psychophysiology 39: 874-878. [PDF] Psychophys 2002

Forster, B., & Corballis, M.C. (2000). Interhemispheric transfer of colour and shape information in the presence and absence of the corpus callosum. Neuropsychologia 38: 32-45. [PDF] Neurpsy2 2000

Forster, B., Corballis, P.M., & Corballis, M.C. (2000). Effect of luminance on successiveness discrimination in the absence of the corpus callosum. Neuropsychologia 38: 441-50. [PDF] Neurpsy1 2000

Forster, B., & Corballis, M.C. (1998). Interhemispheric transmission times in the presence and absence of the forebrain commissures: effects of luminance and equiluminance. Neuropsychologia 36: 925-934. [PDF] Neurpsy 1998

Forster, B., Gebhardt, R.P., Lindlar K., Siemann M., & Delius, J.J. (1996). Mental-rotation effect: A function of elementary stimulus discriminability? Perception 25: 1301-1316.

 

 

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