Motor cortex and hand motor skills: Structural compliance in the human brain

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 206-215

  Amunts, Katrin ^a   Schlaug, Gottfried ^b,d   Jäncke, Lutz ^c   Steinmetz, Helmuth ^a   Schleicher, Axel ^a   Dabringhaus, Andreas ^a   Zilles, Karl ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Hand motor skill; Handedness; Human motor cortex; MRI; Musicians; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030820065     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0193(1997)5:3<206::AID-HBM5>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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