Role of the supplementary motor area and the right premotor cortex in the coordination of bimanual finger movements

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 9667-9674

  Sadato, Norihiro ^a   Yonekura, Yoshiharu ^a   Waki, Atsuo ^a   Yamada, Hiroki ^a   Ishii, Yasushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bimanual coordination; Positron emission tomography; Premotor cortex; Regional cerebral blood flow; Sequential finger movements; Supplementary motor area

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

EID: 0031467241     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-24-09667.1997     Document Type: Article

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