Effects of interstimulus interval on somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEFs): A hypothesis concerning SEF generation at the primary sensorimotor cortex

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Evoked Potentials

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 479-487

  Wikstrom H ^a   Huttunen, J ^a,b   Korvenoja, A ^a   Virtanen, J ^a,c   Salonen, O ^a   Aronen, H ^a   Ilmoniemi, R J ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b JORVI HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

interstimulus interval; magnetoencephalography; neural inhibition; somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

EID: 0030293943     PISSN: 01685597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-5597(96)95688-9     Document Type: Article

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