Fingertip representation in the human somatosensory cortex: An fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 7, Issue 4 I, 1998, Pages 261-283

  Gelnar, Patricia A ^a   Krauss, Beth R ^a   Szeverenyi, Nikolaus M ^a   Apkarian, A Vania ^a  

^a SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031849380     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nimg.1998.0341     Document Type: Article

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